Tara King

Tara was a secret agent who worked for the Ministry and was friends with Jo Grant.

Biography
Jo and Tara went to school together. Tara was employed as an assistant to an eccentric freelance gentleman adventurer working for the Ministry, which Jo thought of as a job similar to her own, though she looked down on Tara's intelligence work as "swanning about in vintage cars, doing judo and wearing a selection of not-very-convincing wigs."

When Jo was in London, she stayed with Tara. At the time, Tara was getting lots of telephone calls because agents higher-up in the Ministry were getting into trouble. (PROSE: Verdigris)

Behind the scenes

 * Tara is implicity from The Avengers, although her last name was not mentioned in Verdigris. Her usual partner in The Avengers, John Steed, had already made several cameos in the DWU before this very direct suggestion of Tara living in the same universe as Jo Grant.