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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lieutenant Benjamin "Archer" "Stretch" Cohen of Israel was once with the famed Israeli sniper force, the Sayeret Matkal.
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.
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.