Flinx's Folly (Pip & Flinx) by Alan Dean Foster

New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his acclaimed Humanx universe, home of a young human orphan called Flinx and the formidable minidrag known as Pip. Flinx's Folly follows Flinx on a thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of his mind and body—a quest that forces him to confront a horror almost beyond human comprehension concealed somewhere in the universe, and coming closer.

Even before the latest murderous attack by a new gang of assailants, there seems no end to people determined to arrest, examine, or kill him. Flinx has been spirited away and enlisted in a battle against a monstrous extra-galactic threat, and must decide who he can trust as he races toward the heart of danger.