Patrimony - Alan Dean Foster

In this Pip & Flinx thriller, Alan Dean Foster displays the brilliance that
has made him one of the brightest lights in science fiction. In Patrimony, fans will
learn more about their favorite redhead-with emerald eyes, uncanny powers, and a
poisonous minidrag-than they ever dreamed possible.

"I know who your father is .
. . Gestalt." A shocked Flinx hears these dying words from one of the renegade eugenicists
whose experiments with humans twenty-odd years ago shocked the galaxy . . . and spawned
Flinx. So Flinx and his minidrag, Pip, venture to Gestalt, an out-of-the-way planet
perfect for someone who never wants to be found-disregarding the advice of those
who think Flinx could make better use of his time locating the ancient, sentient
weapons platform that could be the galaxy's only chance of stopping the exterminating
scourge that's fast approaching. Flinx might agree with them-but the quest for patrimony
wins out. (Sorry, galaxy!)

Could Gestalt supply the key to Flinx's shadowy past and
strange powers? An eccentric loner in a remote area could be the father Flinx has
never stopped searching for, perhaps the only person who can unravel the mystery
of his birth and his amazing, agonizing powers. An eccentric longer in a remote area
of the distant planet could be he father Flinx has never stopped searching for, perhaps
the only person who can unravel the mystery of Flinx's birth and his amazing, agonizing
powers.

Unfortunately for Flinx, Gestalt also hosts a resident bounty hunter who' s just learned about the stupendous reward offered for a certain dead redhead. Flinx
gets a chance to test his adversary's skills when our hero's skimmer is blasted out
of the sky and into a raging river in the middle of nowhere-a nowhere of impassable
terrain and ravenous, carnivorous beasts.

But hey, what's one more impossible challenge
for someone who's spent his life defying the odds and escaping the inescapable? Flinx
has one thing going for him . . . plenty of experience.


From the Hardcover edition.