Hook: the Boosted Man

Hook: the Boosted Man was published in 1975 by Kenneth Bulmer writing as Tully Zetford.  This is science-fiction action at it's finest.  Ryder Hook is a teched-up superman with a hard heart of gold.  Sure, he threw somebody out of a skyscraper in Vol. One (Hook: Whirlpool of Stars), and then used their corpse as a landing pad, he's basically a righteous guy.   Here in volume two, he still doesn't like to be used, and he's once again freeing his fellow crash survivors from slavery, and Bulmer/Zetford really comes through in setting the scene here, and he really does a good job describing the work/play cycle as the slaves are worked to death.  The slaves are drugged to think they're in heaven, and Hook still gets off on being in the drug-enhanced super-speed "boosted" state, so though druggy themes abound, it's still mainly about class warfare as Hook gets the workers of the world to unite as he ups the violence and rips out the spines of the evil overlords.   The scenes where Hook awakes from his brainwashing are particularly effective:

     Hook lifted his silver spoon of strawberries and cream and looked at Anthea, whose lithe and voluptuous figure sat so closely to his on the padded gilded chairs under the roseate lamps.
     A trilling tingling started along his spine.  The silver spoon vibrated.  By the great savior, as they said, Anthea could set a man's blood on fire!
     The trilling persisted.  A silver fog obscured his vision.  He felt his bones rattling in his skin.  He looked at the cheap plastic spoon in his hand and the nauseous slop dripping from it to fall into the scummy pool in the cracked dish on the filthy table.  Anthea was cuddling up to him laughing.  Her dull orange coverall was stained with grease and dirt....
      He saw the battered metalloy cup with the foul water scumming the rim, and he saw Anthea lift it to her lips and drink, and heard her say: "This champagne is the best I've drunk!"
     And he knew.

Hook's the motherf#@king man.  The end of Vol. 2 finds him about to jettison a dozen sedated boosted women into space; hope he finds a better use for them in Vol. 3 & 4...