Trouble Magnet: A Pip Flinx Adventure-Quality Guarantee

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From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing Pip & Flinx adventurefor fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and his miniature flyingdragon. In this dazzling novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy’s greatestmagnet for big trouble.

Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxyis a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons’ system. All Flinx has to do—while hispals look after his injured love Clarity Held—is find the hefty object and persuadeit to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entireCommonwealth.

A no-brainer, really, especially for Flinx, who is never without hisloyal entourage of official snoops, crazed zealots, assorted goons, and the occasionalassassin. Indeed, the boy wonder and his mini-drag, Pip, are eager to commence theirheroic task . . . just as soon as Flinx visits Visaria—a dangerously depraved planet—toconvince himself that humans are indeed worth saving.

The chances of stumbling acrosshigh moral values and utopian ideals don’t look promising–what with Flinx playinga lawless Pied Piper to a gang of lying, thieving juvenile delinquents. But prospectsreally 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 passelof them—by turns devastating, heartening, and positively jaw-dropping. For althoughFlinx came to Visaria to plumb the enigma of humankind, there’s another mystery waitinghere, a shocking clue about his own shadowy past.