Jessica Cole is an agent with MI6.
Well, she will be. She has no desire to go to work for that British intelligence agency but as we will find out during the three recorded adventures we have of her, she is not really given much of a choice. Conscripted is a good word for her recruitment.
Before all that, though, she is high school student St. Alban's Comprehensive in London. And she is a part-time model. She is not in the top tier of glamour models and despite being quite attractive, she is certain she never will me. "Jessica was the first to admit she didn't look like the Cindy Crawfords or Claudia Schiffers who used to dominate the modelling world with their curvy figures and perfectly balanced features. Jessica's forehead was a little broad and her jaw stronger than most girls her age, accentuating her large green eyes and the freckles on her upturned nose." More important for the kind of activities she will find herself involved in, "Without make-up on she looked like any other teenage girl."
So, the question is then how does a teenage student who also models become an operative for the Firm? We have her dad to thank for that.
Dad is a private investigator and ex-MI6 operative. Dad is also, IMHO, an interesting combination of "overprotective single dad" (her words) and a tad guilty of child endangerment. True, she has never been put into real danger - not that much - in the things he has asked her to do on his cases but helping plant a bug here and there and some of the other things we learn he has used her for, well, safe to say she has had an non-standard upbringing.
On the plus side of that, though, is the fact that she knows how to follow people and how to plant bugs and how to use some of the really nifty gadgets that he has provided her with. Some of them are way cool and not anything normally found in the possession of a normal teenage student and budding fashion model.