The Beast Master by Andre Norton

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Hosteen Storm, a Navajo from the American southwest, was a soldier in the Planetary Confederacy forces. He served as a Beast Master teamed with an African eagle (Baku), two meerkats (Hing and Ho) and a dune cat (Surra). Storm and his genetically enhanced animals served valiantly in the war that defeated the alien Xiks. However, that victory did not prevent the destruction of Earth. And so his search for a new home began. Storm emigrates with his team of animals to the colonized frontier planet Arzor. He befriends the local native race, the Norbies, a mute people who have developed sign language to an art. But his new peace is shattered when he finds himself confronted by and old nemesis, Quade and a holdout Xik force that brings war to his adopted home. But perhaps an answer lies in the buried city of the Old Ones, a race that traveled the star-lanes long before man. Left homeless by the war that reduced Terra to a radioactive cinder, Hosteen Storm ? Navaho commando and master of beasts ? is drawn to the planet Arzor, to kill a man he has never met.On that dangerous frontier world, aliens and human colonists share the land in an uneasy truce. But something is upsetting the balance, and Storm is caught in the middle. He had thought the war was over ? but was it Miss Norton endows this story of a homeless, revenge-driven man with her own inimitable touch. The result is a compelling and compassionate tale.? ? The New York Times Book Review

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The Beast Master by Andre Norton