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Subject: Re: Can anyone identify
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 19:46:52 EST
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> From: Dean Sutherland 
> 
> this book?  It was written by Alan E. Nourse (I think...)
> 
> Hero is a member of "Earth Intelligence".  He is trying to catch a spy for the
> "bad guys" (I don't remember who they are).  The spy has the ability to
> teleport himself from any point on a planet to any other, or to teleport from
> ground to orbit (or vice versa).  I recall that the Earth empire held together
> because their military could supposedly cause suns to nova.
> 
> The only other thing that I remember is that many characters turn out to
> actually be different people than the reader is led to believe.  In fact, at
> least one character really isn't the person HE thought he was...
> 
> Dean F. Sutherland

This sounds a lot like "The Programmed Man."  I read this when I was
about in 7th grade so the memory's a bit fuzzy, but I recall liking
it.  It was definately a juvenile SF book.

	-paul asente