THE MAKING OF A REBEL At thirteen, Bran Tregare was stripped of his home, his name and his family, and sent to the brutal space academy known as the Slaughterhouse. At seventeen, he'd survived the sadistic discipline of a starcaptain called the Butcher to become an ace pilot, crack gunner and hardened killer. At twenty, he escaped with an armed warship to begin a one-man war against Earth's imperial masters.
Bran Tregare begins a one-man war against Earth's imperial masters and meets the beautiful and strong-willed Rissa Kerguelen, a woman who joins him in the fight to save humanity
The Mark Twos were a breed apart, similar to other humans in every way but one: a survival adaptation different from any seen before. When it was discovered how remarkable that adaptation was, the implications were staggering...Because in a world where fear and suspicion reigned, where disease limited population growth, and where survival of the human race depended on a cure for that disease, the Mark Twos were the answer: not a cure, but a new kind of humanity.Here is the extraordinary story of Humanity Mark Two's struggle for survival in the fearful, suspicious world. With vivid, fast-moving prose, F.M. Busby unfolds the adventure of Humanity's confrontation with its own startling future.
Hamlyn, 1979. British paperback edition of this 1973 novel. First book in the "Demu" space opera trilogy. The other books in this series are "The Proud Enemy" (1975) and "End of the Line" (1980).