Kat

Kat is one of five spies in the (formerly named) Project Neverland group, now known as the City Spies. She originally grew up in Nepal, and was recruited from the UNICEF Transitional Learning Center, Kathmandu, Nepal. Her specialty is cryptography and looking for patterns.

## Skills/Abilities

Kat uses off-the-charts code-breaking skills to decipher encrypted communications. She also once won a £5,000 sweepstakes by determining which candy bar held the correct pieces and donated the prize money to her old school in Nepal. She also wins the Newton Medal (which is a high math honor awarded to one student at Kinloch Abbey when the year ends) every year at Kinloch Abbey. She even beats all the older students preparing for fancy collages.

## Before the Books

### Recruitment:

Kat was recruited before the books, when Monty and Mother were looking for her in Kathmandu, Nepal. She was able to create a bracelet using a mathematical formula and recite a pattern. She and Monty understood each other through math, despite the fact that they spoke different languages. Soon after that, she was taken out of the UNICEF Transitional Learning Center and sent to live at the FARM.

## Book 1:

Kat spies on Brooklyn with Paris and Rio when she first lands in Scotland and doesn’t stand up for Brooklyn when she is unfairly framed for allegedly stealing a watch. But Kat does form a better relationship with Brooklyn by the end of the book. She manages to figure out an Asset Inventory Code by looking at past crime scenes committed by the Purple Thumb. This ASI helps the City Spies accomplish their mission.

## Book 2:

Kat manages to find the location and time of the picture Clementine (Mother's wife) gave to Brooklyn. She additionally found the owner of the camera: RF Stroud. This started Operation Golden Gate, the mission to investigate Stroud or Peter Rutledge, a retired spy.

## Book 3:

Kat is determined to solve the St. Basil code, which was deemed unbreakable by M16 cryptologists, but it is Brooklyn and Charlotte who solve the code.

## Book 4:

Kat is the alpha in much of City Spies: City of the Dead.

## Relationships

* Sara Maria Martinez (Brooklyn)

Brooklyn is the newest member of the City Spies and is also one of the youngest. She replaced Charlotte as the group's main hacker. Although Kat was cold and unwelcoming to her at the beginning of the story, even accusing her of stealing a watch, she was shown to have formed a closer bond with her by the end of the book.

* Charlotte Sloane

Charlotte was the City Spies' original hacker and was with the group for about two years before she got kicked out by Mother for stealing money from various banks. She and Kat had a close relationship, described as being "thick as thieves" by Sydney in Book 1. Kat was especially devastated when Charlotte supposedly quit.

* Salomon Omborenga (Paris)

Paris was the first member of the City Spies and also the oldest. Because of that, he is normally the "alpha" of the group's operations. He and Kat don't have a particularly close relationship, but they have a light understanding, as they've been on a team with each other for years.

* João Cardozo (Rio)

As Rio is closest in age to Kat, they share a sibling-like bond, with Kat offering Rio half of her sandwich in exchange for being the lookout and Rio allowing her to be the lookout. They do not exhibit much rivalry or strife in the book between each other, instead sharing a playful, teasing relationship with Kat commenting, "That's okay, I was always going to give you the sandwich." In Book 3, Kat, who was self-conscious about her attitude toward other people, asked Rio for lessons on how to be charming. Their bond seemed to grow throughout these lessons.

* Olivia Rose (Sydney)

Sydney is a year older than Kat is, and as being part of Project City Spies together for at least a few years (along with sharing a bathroom and a suitcase) they would have established at least an ok relationship by the time this story takes place.

* Alexandra Montgomery (Monty)

Monty, aka Alexandra Montgomery, oversees Project City Spies alongside Mother. She and Kat share a special bond because they both specialize in cryptography. Throughout the books, they give each other 'challenges' to see who can solve the codes first.

* Mother

Since Mother is the founder of the City Spies project and also the person who recruited Kat, they share a mutual understanding. He notices the way she looks at the world "differently" and her friendship with Charlotte. In Book 2, Mother officially adopted Kat along with the other City Spies.

## Personality

Kat apparently sees the world "differently", which helps her with her cryptography skills. She's more of an introvert and looks at the world with mathematical patterns. People see her as cold and indifferent because she prefers not to make small talk and tends to be brutally honest. Kat also doesn't like people touching her belongings and keeps her room locked most of the time. The few chances she ever "came out of [her] shell" was after she promised Brooklyn that she would be able to go into Kat's room - which was a large improvement for Kat, given she mostly dislikes "other people".