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Book Synopsis4m, 3f / Comedy /Unit setDr. Myles Stanton is an astronomer stationed at a lonely observatory in the desert, but his job isn''t the only thing that keeps him in the dark. For Dr. Stanton is about to lose his wife, Hali, to Blaine, his lab assistant and best friend. Why Hali would find the luckless and accident prone Blaine to be a better catch than Myles is a mystery more baffling to the egocentric astronomer than any mystery he has ever viewed through his telescope. It''s not just Blaine''s obsession with an impending invasion from Mars that makes him seem such an odd choice for the sophisticated and lovely Hali. But what is it about him that has also earned the attention of three strangers dressed in trench coats, fedoras and dark glasses? Dr. Myles Stanton, left in charge of an obsolete observatory he was sure everyone had forgotten about, takes center stage in an international game of cat and mouse. It is the evening of the launch of Sputnik when world tensions were high and spies
