Mother

Mother is part of the mysterious British spy organization, MI6. He recruited Rio, Kat, Paris, Sydney, and Brooklyn, and now oversees Project City Spies along with Dr. Alexandra Montgomery (aka Monty) for Project Neverland. He also works as the caretaker of a small airfield.

## Before the books

While undergoing Operation Gumdrop in Paris, France, Mother met a ten-year-old Paris, who then lived in an abandoned candy factory where Mother would be setting up for Operation Gumdrop. Paris offered to let Mother stay for free, but Mother instead arranged for Paris to live in a nearby MI6 safe house.

After being betrayed by his own wife, Clementine, a fire consumed the abandoned building. Mother was left to die on one of the upper floors when Paris (who had been secretly watching Mother's progress with the operation) came to rescue him by secreting him through the Parisian Catacombs, with Mother was officially declared dead. Mother revealed that he was alive to the leader of the M16 who placed him on the then-named Project Neverland. He started recruiting people, starting with Paris as his first recruit. He then recruited Sydney, Charlotte, Rio, Kat, and Brooklyn; however Charlotte was later removed from the team.

## City Spies: Golden Gate

Mother looks for Robert and Annie using a picture Clementine gave Brooklyn and goes to Australia after Brooklyn found that Annie had been enrolled in school there at some point.

## City Spies: Forbidden City

Mother goes with Paris as he competes in the Around the World Chess Invitational.

## Relationships

* Clementine

Clementine is Mother's wife and betrayed him for Umbra, disappearing off of M16's grid along the way. She took with her their two children, Robert and Annie, who Mother is still looking for in the current book. A woman believed to be her saved Brooklyn in the first book, gave her a flash drive containing a photo of Robert and Annie, happy and healthy, then essentially vanished.

* Paris

Paris was the first recruited member of the City Spies. He first met Mother when he was ten years old (as mentioned above) and saved him from a burning building using the Parisian Catacombs. He considers Mother his rival in chess.

* Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most recently recruited member of the team, and she shares a slightly paternal, slightly teasing relationship with him - with Brooklyn joking "Don't you mean 'probably?'" during her trial and Mother allowing her not to climb the building, as she does not trust in her ability to scale it properly. Mother thinks Brooklyn has the biggest potential for becoming a spy.

* Robert and Annie

Robert and Annie are Mother's children, who were taken by Clementine when she betrayed M16 (as mentioned above). Annie is reported to be interested in computers and a good swimmer. She and Robert were shown in a photo in a flash drive given to Brooklyn, five years older than when Mother last saw them and seemingly content.

* Charlotte Sloane

Charlotte is the former member of the City Spies team and was replaced by Brooklyn. She was kicked off of the team by Mother because she attempted to hack into a bank and steal money from it. They don't share a particularly close relationship anymore, due to that, but Charlotte told the group (minus Brooklyn) that this was her way of telling Mother "I'm sorry".

* Tru

While Mother and Tru initially get along well, during the fourth book Mother stops trusting her, even asking her “What part of you is artificial? Your wooden heart?”