Found: "Space Odyssey"

I know the name of the book I read when I was in Highschool. That is part of the problem. Google doesn't help. The name is or is similar to Space Odyssey, but it is not 2001: Space Odyssey. I don't know the author. But I can pretty much recite what happened in the story. A man is abducted, his body is modified to be a slave for these alien big game hunters, they have a female with them. The hunters get killed, he has to protect the girl, he falls in love with her. He finds a ship wreck covered in giant vines, with giant cats hunting some kind of giant bug for food. He tames one of the cats. And a lot more happens but those are the broad strokes of the story line. It is one of the few science fiction stories about love I've read, I'm sure there are more out there, and I don't usually reread a book but I would like to this one, if someone could help me. Thank you.

Galactic Odyssey by Keith Laumer. Wikipedia has a summary.

>2 Petroglyph: Wow amazing that is it. Thank You.

>2 Petroglyph: I should've gotten this one, was a big Laumer fan in the 1960s.

>3 cherokeewolf3000:

Happy to help!

>4 dukedom_enough:

Wow, an OG. I came to Laumerdom a little later than that, and typing that made me realize he's due for a revisit. Any favourites?

>5 Petroglyph: A Plague of Demons was a fave. The Monitors aimed at being satirical; would be interesting to see how it holds up.

Ok here is a challenge does any one know the Giant Tabby Cats Name?

>7 cherokeewolf3000: It's Eureka. At least in the magazine version. I doubt Laumer changed it in the book version.

>5 Petroglyph: I've always been partial to Laumer's short stories. My two favorite collections are Nine by Laumer and Bolo.

>9 alco261: Of course, the 1960s novels are not much longer than novellas. As you know.