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''Dragon and Thief'' is a science fiction/adventure novel published in 2003 by Timothy Zahn. It is the first of a six-part series, concluded in 2008, following the adventures of a reformed juvenile thief alongside a draconoid 'symbiont'. ==Characters== Jack Morgan is a fourteen-year-old boy, raised by his adoptive uncle, Virgil Morgan, as a professional thief and confidence artist but presently interested in reform. Throughout the first book, he lives aboard the starship ''Essenay'', protected by an artificial intelligence mimicking his uncle. Draycos is a 'K'da': a pseudo-reptile resembling a wingless Dragon, requiring periodic physical contact with an anthropoid host to retain existence, and in return serving the host as bodyguard. Deprived of his customary host in battle, he befriends Jack Morgan to identify his attackers. Virgil Morgan, the adoptive uncle of Jack, is a professional thief and confidence artist, notorious throughout the Orion Arm, and therefore sought as an ally by the story's antagonists; but has died before the events of the initial book, and is represented largely in Jack's memories. Because his death is kept secret by Jack, he is believed alive by supporting characters until the final book. Uncle Virge is the artificial intelligence guiding the starship ''Essenay''. Being created to mimic the late Virgil, he is the reader's chief source of information upon the latter, and serves as devil's advocate in any discussion by Jack, Draycos, and himself of future plans. Arthur Neverlin is the Chairman of the Board of Braxton Universis, an interstellar megacorporation, who arranges to frame Jack Morgan for theft, and later murder, in order to interest Virgil Morgan in Neverlin's own feud with Cornelius Braxton, his superior. Lieutenant Raven is Neverlin's subordinate, who frames Jack for theft by planting dry ice in place of cargo, and later for murder by killing two noncombatants. Himself killed by Draycos. Drabs is Raven's subordinate. Cornelius Braxton is the founder and CEO of Braxton Universis; nearly assassinated by Neverlin, but saved by Jack and Draycos. Harper is Braxton's bodyguard and gatekeeper. Polphir is Draycos' former host, who dies in battle. He is Shontine, a race similar to humans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dragon and Thief」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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