The Shape Changer
by Keith Laumer
When you are knighted, rich, happily married, and just a trifle bored, it comes as something of a shock suddenly to discover that you are a shabby mountebank of doubtful courage, dubious morals, and uncertain future. Or that all at once you are a crippled birdman unable to leave your nest because through some oversight you've forgotten how to teleport yourself through three feet of hardwood wall.
Fortunately, Lafayette O'Leary had been through this sort of thing before, so he knew more or less what to do. What he had not expected, however, was to win his way back to his own time and continuum only to find his Doppelganger lording it like a tyrant over the populace and his wife quite unable to perceive the genuine heart of gold within the newly acquired sleazy exterior. But nothing keeps an O'Leary down for long. Lafayette knew there had to be some way out of the mess he'd got himself into. But it took some finding...
Ace 1984 ISBN 044176102X 230pp
Paperback, good condition, cover and spine creasing, hole punched front cover, page tanning.
18 x 11 x 1.8. 132g
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