Cliffs

The final volume of The Journeys of McGill Feighan, an award-winning space opera series by Kevin O'Donnell Jr.
It was supposed to be a fun weekend on Rehma, a planet of nestlings and birdsong. Instead, McGill Feighan encounters a mutant virus and repeated assaults by galactic goons who have wanted him dead since he was four days old.
And McGill isn't any closer to finding the Far Being.
So he sets out with the assistance of the crimson-crested Dr. Th'hweet to put things right on Rehma. It's going to take an alien wing and a prayer...