Just a walk in the park...
...if that park is dense jungle under a green sky, infested with venomous flying jade ribbon snakes, and inhabited by primitive but intelligent aliens. And when Jason Burnside has walked through all that, he's going undercover to investigate a Velkaryan armaments factory.
Jackie Roberts is taking her ship
Sophie
and two agents to Verdigris to rendezvous with Burnside, but the Velkaryans already know about her. Even if Roberts and the rest can evade the Velkaryans, they still have to find Burnside, and it's a big planet.
Sequel to
The Eridani Convergence
and
The Centauri Surprise
.