Jacques Island has spent most of his working life with various U.S. Government agencies as an intelligence producer and as a crime investigator. After military service as an intelligence operative in Vietnam and Germany he was recruited into the U.S. Foreign Service as a counterintelligence/counter-terrorism operative protecting U.S. embassies, dignitaries and diplomats on missions around the world, and foreign dignitaries on state visits to the U.

S. After six years he transferred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation from which he retired in 2002. During his tenure with the F.B.I. he investigated major frauds, espionage, and organized crime groups, and he dealt with prison uprisings, aircraft hijackings, hostage takings, and terrorists from the left, the right and from abroad that threatened the interests of the United States. His work in all three agencies required a lot of writing and editing to produce complex investigation and intelligence reports. In one particular project of several years he conceived and helped direct a multi-agency intelligence team that produced an encyclopedic, three-volume F.

B.I. publication of more than 1,000 pages about the international drug trafficking groups and methods, of which he was the editor and publisher. Upon retirement from the F.B.I. in 2002, Jacques founded the Inquesta Corporation and turned his attention to the private sector as a RISC consultant to companies, large and small. In 2006 he added Quest Publishing as a division of the Inquesta Corporation to service law enforcement, security and academic professionals producing works in the fields of public safety, security and investigations.