David Starr, Space Ranger

*Note: this version has alternate cover art than another with identical isbn (0-449-23493-2) also published in 1978 by Fawcett. David Starr - an infant cradled in a tiny lifeboat launched by his parents when pirates attacked their Venus-bound starship. The infant had grown into an athlete with the sharp clear brain of a first-class scientist. And now David Starr was an officer of the Council of Science. His first mission: To find the enemies of Earth who were disrupting its food supply, the domed farms of Mars. Isaac Asimov writing as Paul French.