The Sum of Her Parts by Alan Dean Foster

 

I have never been disappointed with a Foster book.  His plots are always thought provoking.   I still have unpleasant visions whilst on an airplane due to Into the Out Of although it has been decades since I read it.  This book is about a physician and a Meld (body modification human being) who are traveling across a desert to find the solution to a mystery.  This is the third book in a series.  

Dr. Ingrid Seastrom and Whisper are well developed characters whose personalities feed on each other for Foster’s trademark buddy humor.   They encounter a wide variety of beings as they trek through a supposedly impassible and uninhabited desert with the assumption they are dealing with corporate malfeasance. 

   

The conclusion reached surprised them.

I enjoyed the book and am going to track down the two previous in the season although this book stood well as a stand alone.

This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.