Trouble Magnet
Trouble Magnet (2006) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is the twelfth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.
Although he is supposed to be searching for the planet-sized Krang weapons platform in the uninhabited Sagittarius sector, Flinx finds himself sidetracked once again to a new planet, Visaria. On the planet he gets mixed up in the affairs of a youth gang and the local criminal mob and discovers yet another bit of information about himself.
External links
Trouble Magnet title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Alan Dean Foster homepage