Dawn for a Distant Earth (Forever Hero, #1)

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DEVILKID The Empire spanned the galaxy, leaving abanboned the ruins of Old Earth - a frigid devastation of gray deserts and poison, ice storms and landspouts; a wasteland home only to coyotes and rats, degenerate shambletowners and feral devilkids. Sometimes a fad would sweep the Empire - reclaim the homeworld. But environmental salvation took too long, cost too much, and the fads were always forgotten... Except by MacGregor gerswin. A captured devilkid trained for space combat, he was too savage, too brilliant, too independent for the military, who exiled him to his home. But there Gerswin found a challenge that would consume all his strength and rage, through the decades and centuries of his life. He conspired to wage a one man war against the indiffererce, the incompetence, the vanity of an empire. He would use patience, politics, manipulation - even sabotage, scandal and ambush. But - somehow - Gerswin would find a way to bring Earth back from the dead.