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Mabel
Merriweather is Jack's mother (first named in The Four Legendary Kingdoms), who lives in Australia. Prior to FLK, she was only seen by Jack once every several years due to the facts of Wolf's violent relationship with her and Wolf's affair. She divorced Wolf and humiliated him even further by
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J.J. 'Sea Ranger' Wickham is Jack's brother-in-law and oldest friend. He married Jack's sister, Lauren West. An expert submariner, he stole a
Russian Kilo-class submarine & is now a rogue submariner living on the island of Zanzibar. He helps Jack in his mission and has a mutual hatred of Jack
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West was also sent to a series of multi-national special forces exercises at
Coronado in 1990, hosted by the US at their Navy SEALs base. These exercises were hosted by West's future enemy, Marshall Judah. West was injured in a helicopter accident at Coronado and lay unconscious in a hospital for
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is Jack's adopted daughter. She was born to the wife of the former Oracle of Siwa, who was kidnapped and taken to a chamber in the heart of a
Ugandan volcano. Her captors, led by the priest Del Piero took the mother's first-born child, Lily's older twin brother Alexander, and left her mother for
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Maximillian "Wizard" Epper was a
Canadian-born professor who taught at Trinity College in Dublin, teaching Jack West, Jack's future wife Zoe Kissane & two Scottish students (his personal favorites) Lachlan & Julian Adamson "The Cowboys". He first met Jack when he joined the class he was
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Jack West Junior's father was a cold and ruthless
American, Colonel Jack West Senior ("Wolf"), and his mother Mabel Merriweather was an Australian high-school history teacher. He had an older sister who was killed in a plane accident a few years before the events of
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is Jack's father and has attempted to kill Jack several times. He is an
American and referred to by J.J. Wickham as "one motherfucker of a father-in-law". He has another son with the callsign of "Rapier". He is killed by his own greed at the end of
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is the second son of Sheik Anzar al Abbas. Pooh Bear is a slightly chubby fellow, known for his explosive experiments & wit. He is one of Lily West's closest friends. During a fight with him and
Stretch vs Scimitar and Vulture, he lost an eye.
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Jack West Sr (father, deceased), Mabel "Mae" Merriweather (mother, deceased), Lily West (adopted daughter), Lauren
Wickham (sister, deceased), J.J. Wickham (brother-in-law), Zoe Kissane-West (wife as of the third book), Rapier (half-brother,
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teaching and they went on from there. In 1996, Wizard was involved in saving Lily. Wizard and Lily have always hit it off, so naturally Lily was one of the most hurt when Wizard died tragically, killed by Jack's father, Wolf, in
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Lily is described as being of
Egyptian descent, and, like her twin brother, is an Oracle of Siwa. This grants her the ability from the age of 10 to read the Word of Thoth. She is also highly competent with other languages.
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dead. Jack and Max Epper were able to perform a caesarian on the dead mother using Jack's Leatherman knife, and rescued Lily, though Jack lost his arm triggering a release lock behind a curtain of lava during their escape.
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in 2003 & was ordered to infiltrate Jack West's team. Known for his expertise with snipers, he is first at odds with the Muslim Pooh Bear (himself being a
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