Richard McKenna 
The Night of Hoggy Darn 

On the isolated colony world of New Cornwall, the native species known as ‘stompers’ are hunted for their rare and prized eggs. But ecologist Flinter Cole uncovers the dark secret behind the lucrative stomper egg trade that threatens to expose the planet’s shameful past. When Cole is cast into the nightmare world within the planet’s vast forests, he must fight alongside the colonists against the stompers while guarding a truth that could destroy them all.science fiction