moves and techniques of every Cooper clan member. On his 8th birthday, Sly was supposed to inherit the book and learn all his family's ancient secrets, which was supposed to help him become a master thief. However, a group of thugs called "The Fiendish Five" (led by Clockwerk, the arch-nemesis of the family clan) attacked the Cooper household, killed Sly's parents, and stole all the pages from the Thievius Raccoonus. After that, the ruthless gang goes their separate ways to commit dastardly crimes worldwide. Sly is sent to an orphanage where he meets and forms a gang with two boys who become his lifelong best friends: Bentley, a turtle technician, inventor, and talented mathematical hacker with encyclopedic knowledge who plays the role of the brains of the gang, and Murray, a huge hippopotamus with a ginormous appetite who plays the role as the brawns and the getaway driver of the gang. The three leave the orphanage together at age 16 to start their lives becoming international vigilante criminals, naming themselves "The Cooper Gang." Sly swears one day to avenge his family and track down the Fiendish Five and steal back the Thievius Raccoonus. 2 years later, the Cooper Gang heads to Paris, France, to infiltrate Interpol headquarters to find the secret police file which stores details and information about the Fiendish Five. During the heist, they are ambushed by Inspector Carmelita Fox (towards whom Sly develops a romantic attraction), an Interpol police officer who is after the Cooper Gang. The gang manages to steal the police file and successfully escapes from her and the rest of the cops. With the secret police file finally in their hands, the Cooper Gang manages to track down the Fiendish Five. Their first target is Sir Raleigh, a greedy aristocratic bullfrog who uses his mechanical skills to prey on sunken ships and steal buried treasures throughout the islands of Wales. After bringing down Raleigh and leaving him to be arrested by Interpol, the gang then heads to Mesa City, Utah, where Raleigh's old friend Muggshot, a muscular bulldog, has taken over the city center for his personal gambling empire and street crimes. Once Muggshot and his gangsters are dealt with, the gang heads to their third target in the Hatian jungle; Mz. Ruby, a voodoo priestess alligator, who plans to create an army of ghosts to terrorize those who rejected her as a child.