For+Love+of+Mother-Not

=__For Love of Mother-not__= =by Alan Dean Foster=

They Called Him Flinx...
He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely compelling stare when Mother Mastiff first saw him on the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers.

For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew--even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.

Then Mother Mastiff mysterriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to trail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip's venom...and Flinx's unusual Talents.

Summery:
Finx is adopted by Mother Mastiff, an old lady who is a shop owner, when he was just a kid. Mother Mastiff did not know what possessed her to adopt him, that wasn’t the kind of thing she would do. After getting to know him more, she finds out that that he has a mysterious past full of conflict and that he ** eats a lot **. Finx grows up and he becomes very curious and adventurous. He explores the city and makes friends with the neighbors. One day, when he was helping with the shop, he tells Mother Mastiff that a customer stole something, though he didn’t see him do it… (Not finished)