For Love of Mother-Not

On the rain-swept world of Moth, the boy Philip Lynx -- called Flinx -- was bought as an infant at a slave auction by the fierce old street peddler Mother Mastiff, who raised him as her own despite a disquieting talent he can barely explain: he seems to sense what other people feel. When Mother Mastiff vanishes, Flinx sets out through Moth's markets and alleys to find her, a search that keeps circling back to the mystery of his own unknown origins and the strange gift growing stronger. The book that opens Alan Dean Foster's Pip & Flinx series, set in his Humanx Commonwealth universe.