From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing new Pip &
Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental
powers and his miniature flying dragon.
In this dazzling new novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy's
greatest magnet for big trouble. Wandering out there in some remote
region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons' system.
All Flinx has to do--while his pals look after his injured love, Clarity
Held--is find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the
monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entire
Commonwealth. A no-brainer, really, especially for Flinx, who is never
without his loyal entourage of official snoops, crazed zealots, assorted
goons, and the occasional assassin. Indeed, the boy wonder and his
mini-drag, Pip, are eager to commence their heroic task...just as soon
as Flinx visits Visaria--a dangerously depraved planet--to convince
himself that humans are indeed worth saving. The chances of stumbling
across high moral values and utopian ideals don't look promising--what
with Flinx playing a lawless Pied Piper to a gang of lying, thieving
juvenile delinquents. But prospects really go south when Flinx runs
afoul of the corrupt planet's ruthless crime king.
Still, life is full of surprises, and Flinx is about to get smacked by a
passel of them--by turns devastating, heartening, and positively
jaw-dropping. For although Flinx came to Visaria to plumb the enigma of
humankind, there's another mystery waiting here, a shocking clue about
his own shadowy past.
