Drake Maijstral is the fictional protagonist of a series of science fiction

Science fiction

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 novels by Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is an American writer, primarily of science fiction.Several of Williams' novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired , Voice of the Whirlwind and Angel Stationn...

. He appears in The Crown Jewels (1987), House of Shards (1988), and Rock of Ages (1995) (collected as Ten Points for Style by the Science Fiction Book Club).

SF Site has described the Maijstral books as a comedy of manners

Comedy of manners

The comedy of manners is a genre of play/television/film which satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young...

, and compared Maijstral to Vlad Taltos.

Character

A minor aristocrat in a galactic empire that has long since conquered and assimilated humanity, Maijstral is an Allowed Burglar: centuries prior to the novels' setting, the alien emperor was a kleptomaniac, and—since nothing the Emperor did could be considered "wrong" -- "Allowed Burglary" was invented as an extreme sport

Extreme sport

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