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   * 2.1 Lily
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JACK WEST JR

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Fictional character

Jonathan West JrCreated byMatthew ReillyAlias"Jack", "Huntsman"RelativesJack
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, deceased)NationalityAustralian/AmericanAppearancesSeven Ancient
Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors, The Four Legendary
Kingdoms, Jack West Jr & The Hero's Helmet,[1] The Three Secret Cities, Jack
West Jr & The Chinese Splashdown, The Two Lost Mountains, The One Impossible
LabyrinthBirth Date1969BirthplaceAmerica

Jonathan "Jack" West Junior is the main character in a book series by Australian
author Matthew Reilly. He appears in the books Seven Ancient Wonders, The Six
Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors, The Four Legendary Kingdoms, The
Three Secret Cities, The Two Lost Mountains, and The One Impossible Labyrinth.


BIOGRAPHY

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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 Seven Ancient Wonders.

West Junior was encouraged to join the US Army by his father but instead joined
the Australian Armed Forces. There he proved to be an extremely efficient
soldier and attained the rank of captain. West was then fast-tracked to the
Special Air Service Regiment, set a new record on a desert survival course, and
became a more formidable soldier than his father.

His desire to learn archaeology led to the Australian Army allowing him to
attend university at Trinity College in Dublin, under the guidance of Professor
Maximilian T. Epper, with whom he formed a close friendship.

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 four days.
When he woke up, West was sent back to Australia with no serious damage done.

Jack made his name at Operation Desert Storm, being one of the first troops to
land in Iraq in 1991, where he blew up communication towers, completed dangerous
missions behind enemy lines, and served under his future foe, Marshall Judah,
who had personally requested him. At a Scud base in Basra, West was left for
dead by Judah but escaped through 300 enemy soldiers.

West then returned to Australia and handed in his resignation to his commanding
officer, Lt. General Peter Cosgrove, and began working with his friend Professor
Epper (aka Wizard) on the Dark Sun project.


FAMILY

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LILY

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Lily "Eowyn" West 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
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.

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.


WOLF

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Jonathan 'Jack' 'Wolf' West Sr 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 The Five Greatest Warriors
(by a similar fate to Jack's previous ordeal at the Second Vertex) after the
Sixth Pillar was laid, trying to get its reward, power.


MABEL MERRIWEATHER

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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 divorcing
him in an Australian court.


LAUREN

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Jack's sister Lauren is deceased after being killed in a plane crash. She was
two years older than Jack.


J.J. WICKHAM

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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 West Snr, referring to him
as one "arsehole of a father in law."


ZOE KISSANE

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Sergeant Zoe "Bloody Mary" "Princess" Kissane is Jack's good friend and, at the
end of The Five Greatest Warriors, the two are married in a civil service.


RAPIER

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Rapier is Jack's half-brother. Determined that their father respects West over
him, he constantly makes threats to kill West for the respect he desires.


COLLEAGUES/FRIENDS

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WIZARD

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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 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 Five Greatest Warriors at
Genghis Khan's arsenal and tomb.


POOH BEAR

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Sergeant Zahir "Saladin" "Pooh Bear" al Anzar al Abbas of the United Arab
Emirates 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.


STRETCH

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Lieutenant Benjamin "Archer" "Stretch" Cohen of Israel was once with the famed
Israeli sniper force, the Sayeret Matkal. He joined the ruthless Israeli Mossad
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
Jew) but his defiance of his orders from the Mossad & his assistance in saving
Lily's life caused the two to realize they had a common goal in keeping Lily
safe and work together. He was captured and turned over to the Mossad where he
was rescued by Pooh Bear, West, and Zoe. During the aforementioned fight between
him/Pooh Bear and Vulture/Scimitar, he was stabbed in the back by Vulture but
survived.


SKY MONSTER

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"Sky Monster" hails from New Zealand, after being trained in the RNZAF.
According to Reilly, his full name is known only to his mother and father, both
of which live in Dunedin, New Zealand, and after the events of The Five Greatest
Warriors, look after Lily's twin brother, Alexander. His name is later revealed
to be Ernest Q. Shepherd II in The Two Lost Mountains. He is West's pilot during
the novels, taking him and his team to various locations over the course of
their adventures. He has performed upgrades to the 747 given by West. His 747
plane, the Halicarnassus, was destroyed at the end of The Five Greatest
Warriors, and he now owns a smaller, faster plane—a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-144.
He christened it the "Sky Warrior".


BIONIC ARM

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Jack's original arm was burnt off when he thrust his arm into a waterfall of
lava[2] to grab an off lever in order to escape with Max "Wizard" Epper and
Lily.

Wizard, as he promised, built Jack a new and 'better' arm, using a super-strong
titanium alloy, and adding a hidden compartment containing a wad of C2
explosive. Jack has made use of these benefits many times during the books, such
as using the fist to block a slab of stone from crushing him (The Six Sacred
Stones), and hanging on to a ceiling rung (Seven Ancient Wonders). It is
detachable, as seen in Jack's escape from the Ethiopian mine in Six Sacred
Stones.


REFERENCES

[edit]
 1. ^ Reilly, Matthew. "Jack West Jr & The Hero's Helmet" (PDF).
    matthewreilly.com. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
 2. ^ Matthew Reilly. Seven Ancient Wonders. Macmillan. p. 82.

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