Diese spannende Science-Fiction-Saga begleitet eine junge Waise, die sich mit einem einzigartigen, empfindungsfähigen Begleiter, der an ihm haftet, an Bord eines Raumschiffs wiederfindet. Gemeinsam begeben sie sich auf eine gefährliche Reise durch die Galaxie, um eine bedrohliche Verschwörung aufzudecken und die Zivilisation zu retten. Voller Action, Tapferkeit und unerwarteter Wendungen bieten diese Geschichten ein packendes Abenteuer für Leser, die auf der Suche nach interstellaren Höhenflügen sind.
Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan is hiding out.In a spaceship.Falsely
accused of a crime, he pilots his Uncle Virgil's spaceship to a remote and
uninhabited planet hoping to escape capture. When another ship crashes after a
fierce battle, Jack rescues the sole survivor-- a K'da warrior names Draycos.
It turns out Draycos can help Jack clear his name. All they have to do is team
up. No problem, right?Until Jack learns that Draycos is not your average
alien.Ages 10 and up
Dragon and Thief, the first novel in the Dragonback series, was named an
American Library Association Best Book For Young Adults. The second novel,
Dragon and Soldier is another fast-paced, compulsively readable SF adventure
featuring an odd couple of reluctant partners on an unusual quest. Draycos, a
golden-scaled draconic K'da poet-warrior, was on a scout fleet ship when it
was attacked, with him the lone survivor. Forced to find a new symbiotic
humanoid host, he found Jack Morgan. Jack has been on his own, making his way
by shipping interstellar cargo on the ship he's inherited from his Uncle
Virgil, a con-man and thief who met with a fatal accident. Draycos has vowed
to uncover those behind a vast conspiracy to wipe out his people, while Jack
is determined to find out who framed him for a crime he didn't commit. Virgil,
who survives as Uncle Virge in the ship's computer, is against their plan. But
Draycos once saved Jack's life, so Jack feels an obligation to this strange
creature who can slip onto the boy's skin, pressing against it like a living
tattoo. Knowing that mercenaries were involved in the ambush that killed
Draycos's fleet, Jack enlists in a mercenary outfit that practically enslaves
adolescent recruits. But the soldier's life isn't exactly what Jack had
bargained for, especially when a mysterious girl is recruited into his group.
Strange things are happening, and people and events are not always as they
seem.
Fourteen-year-old Jack and the dragon warrior Draycos face a diabolical and
ruthless intergalactic slavemaster when Jack attempts to penetrate secret
computer files about the cold-blooded underworld while posing as a slave.
Jack Morgan has had it rough. He was orphaned at three, then lost his Uncle Virgil ten years later. But the plucky fourteen-year-old didn't know what rough was until he met Draycos, sole survivor of an advance force of alien refugees that had been brutally ambushed over the world where Jack was in hiding from the authorities. The K'da poet-warrior…
