During Flinx's struggle to escape the reptilian scientist before members of the AAnn military take him into custody, they accidentally activate the transmitter revealing a secret on the outermost planet of the Pyrassis system, a brown dwarf star.ДЄfter escaping on a shuttle thoughtfully provided by Teacher's AI, Flinx follows both the Crotase and the transmitter's signal to the brown dwarf where an alien construct is found. They inadvertently reveal to him that the strange terrain over which he had been traveling wasn't just the broken lands of a desert, but was in fact an ancient alien transmitter. The difficulty of his journey results in Flinx losing most of his supplies and being captured by a mated pair of AAnn scientists. Now forced to march across the desert with few supplies and only Pip, his minidrag, for company Flinx discovers the strange flora and fauna that exist on the harsh world. He crash lands far from his target, the camp of the ship's crew.

On his trip down to confront the thief, he discovers that his shuttle has been sabotaged by the Crotase's AI. A search of the ship for the missing file turns up nothing, so Flinx must pursue the ship's crew to the planet surface. Once he reaches Pyrassis he finds the agent's ship, the Crotase, in orbit and apparently abandoned. Flinx has no recourse but to pursue in his own space ship, Teacher, leaving Elena in an emotional lurch. The agent has absconded with the file to the bleak desert planet Pyrassis deep in AAnn held territory. In the Shell he discovers a new bit of data about his mysterious past, information about the Meliorare Society, but the file containing this data has already been stolen by an operative hiding behind the front company Larnaca Nutrition. To do so he uses his empathic Talent to seduce Elena Carolles, a security guard in the Shell, and convinces her to allow him direct access to the most secure databanks. The book is the seventh chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.ДЇlinx has returned to Earth for only the second time in his life to search out the records of the extensive computer network known as the Shell that is maintained by the Unified Church. Reunion (2001) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster.

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