Jack Starbright

Jack is Alex Rider's closest and best friend, an American girl who traveled to London to study law when she was twenty one, but never returned to the United States, presumably after having become attached to Alex in their time living together. Her parents still live in America, and she still occasionally visits them.

She was originally employed as a housekeeper by Ian Rider to look after a young Alex and maintain their house during Ian's long absences, in return for the lease of a room in the residence. She is twenty-eight years old. She is described as slim, with tangled red hair, and a boyish, round face that "is always cheerful, even when in a bad mood". She has a crooked smile, and is described to look more like a big sister than a housekeeper. She has known Alex for seven years, since Alex was seven years old.

After the death of Ian Rider, Jack became Alex's legal guardian, and continues to live with him in Chelsea, London. She has appeared in every installment of the Alex Rider series, having been introduced near the beginning of Stormbreaker. She is very protective of Alex, having looked after him for several years, and developed a strong relationship with him.

In Point Blanc and Skeleton Key, Jack makes appearances but does not have a part in the major plot. She strongly disapproves of MI6's demand of Alex, but Alex and Jack have a somewhat "unspoken agreement" not to discuss his MI6 life in their time together.

In Eagle Strike, Jack helps Alex investigate suspicious millionaire Damian Cray. She travels with him from France to the Netherlands, and assists in carrying out a pickpocketting of a V.I.P.'s ticket by distracting him while Alex took the ticket, allowing him to investigate Cray.

In the original English version of Scorpia, Jack hires a tutor to help Alex catch up with the schoolwork he missed because of his MI6 life, having become concerned about the way Alex's spy status has affected him.

When Alex is in hospital in Ark Angel, he receives a get-well card from Jack. It is described as the biggest card in the room, and it is followed up with magazines, chocolate bars and energy drinks. Later, while Alex is on his mission, Jack is in Washington D.C., visiting her parents. When the city is under threat of being destroyed by a bomb on Ark Angel, Jack is one of the main reasons Alex travels to space in order to stop it happening.

In Snakehead, it is revealed that Jack had met Alex's godfather and John Rider's best man, Anthony Howell, also known as 'Ash'. She also tells Alex that she had a minor relationship with Ash, but Ash left and they stopped communicating.

Jack speaks fluent French - she once spent a year at the Sorbonne when studying art in college. It was stated that, if not for her involvement with Alex, she might have gone to live in France. She is also a good cook; according to Alex, she specialises in scrambled eggs. However, she refuses to make anything that takes longer than ten minutes (for comically unknown reasons).

Jack's name may be short for Jackie or Jacqueline - in Stormbreaker, it mentioned that Alex once asked, but she never revealed what it was.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alex_Rider_characters

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