That's a pair of novels by Bob Shaw, Who Goes Here? and the sequel Warren Peace.
The blurb from the first novel:
"In the 24th century, men join the Space Legion to forget. A memory-erasing machine makes sure they do just that. The machine purges the memory of all traces of guilt, but for Legion recruit Warren Pearce it has wiped out everything. He must have had a very nasty past indeed - if only he could recall it. Into battle with the Legion, Warren faces vicious predators in fearsome conflict without the slightest idea why he's been stupid enough to sign on in the first place! "
Throughout the novel Warren is pursued by a pair of golden men, known as Oscars, who are some sort of law enforcers. He is told that whenever the Oscars catch a criminal, they feed him to the Rugs. They eventually catch him. The Rug then bonds with him, and turns him into an Oscar. When he wakes up in his new golden body, he recognizes his captors as his two best friends.
In the second novel he loses the symbiote.
I can't find any cover with a giant wasp, though.
The blurb from the first novel:
"In the 24th century, men join the Space Legion to forget. A memory-erasing machine makes sure they do just that. The machine purges the memory of all traces of guilt, but for Legion recruit Warren Pearce it has wiped out everything. He must have had a very nasty past indeed - if only he could recall it. Into battle with the Legion, Warren faces vicious predators in fearsome conflict without the slightest idea why he's been stupid enough to sign on in the first place! "
Throughout the novel Warren is pursued by a pair of golden men, known as Oscars, who are some sort of law enforcers. He is told that whenever the Oscars catch a criminal, they feed him to the Rugs. They eventually catch him. The Rug then bonds with him, and turns him into an Oscar. When he wakes up in his new golden body, he recognizes his captors as his two best friends.
In the second novel he loses the symbiote.
I can't find any cover with a giant wasp, though.
