Events

2022

Hanover Book Festival—Book Signing

November 12

Rappahannock Writers Conference—Panels

November 5
Panel – Differences in Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
Panel – Working with Agents Panel

Eat Local Read Local at Cascades Library—Book Signing

October 15

Creatures, Crimes & Creativity—Panels

September 30–October 1
Panel – FBI Agents Don’t Work Murder Cases
Panel – Reality in Fiction
Panel – Script to Screen

Monadnock Writers Club—Speech

September 17
Speech – The Business of Writing

Killer Nashville—Panels

August 19
Panel – Writing About Organized Crime
Panel – Street Reality for Writers from the Perspective of Law Enforcement
Panel – Tricks for Writing the Page Turning Thriller

Imaginarium—Panels

July 8–10
Panel – Thrilling Mysteries
Panel – Indie vs. Traditional Publishing
Panel – NaNoWriMo

ThrillerFest—Panel

June 4
Panel – News, Insights, or Investigations? Echoing Current Events

2021

Fredericksburg Independent Book Festival—Book Signing

October 4
Fredericksburg, Virginia

Eat Local Read Local—Book Signing

October 16
Cascades Library, Loudoun County

U.S. Sailboat Show—Book Signing

October 17-18
Annapolis, Maryland

Radio & Podcast Interviews

Murder Mystery, and Mayhem

11/13/2022
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DIY MFA: World Building and Pacing in a Closed Setting Thriller

09/28/2022
Watch

What are you Reading, What are you Writing podcast

09/27/2022
Watch Interview

Storytelling Across Three Genres

Alexandria Library Local Authors Panel
3/15/2022
Watch the Panel

My Favorite Detective Stories

with John Hoda
3/15/2022
Watch Interview

One-to-One podcast

with John DeDakis
12/10/2021
Watch Interview

Blue Family Unity Show

with Elsa Kurt
10/07/2021
Listen to Interview

A Tale of Two Thrillers

with Alan Orlof
09/17/2021
Watch the webinar

Sisters in Crime: Stand Alone Mysteries

08/23/2021
Watch the panel

Leonardo Salvaggio Podcast

An Interview with Jeffrey James Higgins
07/30/2021
Listen to the interview

International Thriller Writers

Debut Author Video
07/10/2021
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The Don Watkins Show

From Crime Fighter to Crime Writer with Jeffrey James Higgins
07/06/2021
Listen to the interview

Meet the Thriller Author

Episode 156: Jeffrey James Higgins
07/06/2021
Listen to the interview

Sisters in Crime
Alexandria Library Authors Panel

06/07/2021
Listen to the interview

Forletta Investigates

05/25/2021
Listen to the interview

Law Enforcement Today

07/26/2020
Listen to the interview

Get Published

02/19/2019
Listen to the interview

The Rick Jensen Show (WDEL/101.7 FM)

02/27/2018
Listen to the interview

Law Enforcement Today

12/04/2017
Listen to the interview

Cultural Baggage

11/03/2017
Listen to the interview

CJ Evolution Podcast

10/27/2017

Steel on Steel

07/15/2017
Listen to the interview

LEO Round Table

Jeffrey is a panelist for this frequent talk-show, participating in over 60 episodes since 2017.
Watch a guest interview
View episode list
Episode 465 – 01/29/2018
Episode 464 – 01/29/2018
Episode 459 – 01/22/2018
Episode 458 – 01/22/2018
Episode 454 – 01/15/2018
Episode 453 – 01/15/2018
Episode 446 – 01/08/2018
Episode 442 – 01/03/2018
Episode 441 – 01/03/2018
Episode 436 – 12/27/2017
Episode 435 – 12/27/2017
Episode 428 – 12/18/2017
Episode 422 – 12/11/2017
Episode 418 — 12/04/2017
Episode 417 – 12/04/2017
Episode 416 – 12/04/2017
Episode 411 – 11/27/2017
Episode 410 – 11/27/2017
Episode 404 – 11/20/2017
Episode 398 – 11/13/2017
Episode 392 – 11/06/2017
Episode 386 – 10/30/2017
Episode 381 – 10/23/2017
Episode 380 – 10/23/2017
Episode 361 – 10/2/2017
Episode 360 – 10/2/2017
Episode 355 – 09/25/2017
Episode 354 – 09/25/2017
Episode 343 – 09/11/2017
Episode 342 – 09/11/2017
Episode 338 – 09/04/2017
Episode 337 – 09/04/2017
Episode 336 – 09/04/2017
Episode 331 – 08/28/2017
Episode 330 – 08/28/2017
Episode 325 – 08/21/2017
Episode 324 – 08/21/2017
Episode 319 – 08/14/2017
Episode 318 – 08/14/2017
Episode 313 – 08/07/2017
Episode 312 – 08/07/2017
Episode 307 – 07/31/2017
Episode 306 – 07/31/2017
Episode 301 – 07/24/2017
Episode 300 – 07/24/2017
Episode 295 – 07/17/2017
Episode 294 – 07/17/2017
Episode 289 – 07/10/2017
Episode 288 – 07/10/2017
Episode 282 – 07/02/2017
Episode 282 – 07/02/2017
Episode 277 – 06/26/2017
Episode 276 – 06/26/2017
Episode 271 – 06/21/2017
Episode 270 – 06/19/17
Episode 264 – 06/12/2017
Episode 258 – 06/05/2017
Episode 252 – 05/29/2017
Episode 246 – 05/22/2017

Print Interviews

An Interview with Thriller Author Jeffrey James Higgins

Anastasia Pollack Blogspot
10/05/2022
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Real Clear Investigations

12/14/2021
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USA Today, “America’s public servants are being terrorized with death threats.”

11/01/2021
Read the interview

Silver Dagger Book Tour Interview: Unseen Evil Lurks Among Us

08/26/2021
Read the interview

Elaine Taylor’s Blog

08/26/2021
Read the interview

Front Page Magazine, “Unseen Terror”

09/9/2021
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The Harvard Press, “Higgins Sails into Terror in Debut Novel”

08/20/2021
Read the article

American Thinker, “Biden’s Disgraceful Retreat”

08/18/2021
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Inverse Magazine, “Peace Blockade.”

08/3/2021
Read review

The Savvy Street, “Furious: Sailing into Terror Rises to the Lofty Portals of Romanticism”

by Walter Donway
06/30/2021
Read review

New York Post Interview

06/11/2021
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Author Interview in The Big Thrill Magazine

06/01/2021
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Author Interview on Sue Rovens’ Blog

05/24/2021
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Author Interview on Lois Winston’s Blog

05/23/2021
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Author Interview on Elena Hartwell’s Blog

05/21/2021
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Fox News: What Does First-Ever Terrorism Charge Against MS-13 Member Really Mean?

07/20/2020
Read interview

Crack the Spine Literary Magazine: WordSmith Author Interview

03/03/2019
Read interview

Undicisettembre: World Trade Center: an Interview with Former DEA Agent Jeffrey Higgins

12/17/2018
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New York Times: Trump Says China Will Curtail Fentanyl. The U.S. Has Heard That Before

12/03/2018
Read interview

Fox News: Chapo may be on trial, but his Sinaloa cartel still doing huge US business

11/29/2018
Read interview

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

11/26/2018
Read interview

Shareblue Media: Overdose deaths skyrocket — and Trump’s trade war may make it worse

08/16/2018
Read interview

USA Today: What a U.S.-China trade war could mean for opioid epidemic

07/06/2018
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Law Enforcement Today: Institutional Injustice is a Lie

11/03/2017
Read interview

Voice of America: New Opium War, China’s Fatal Exports

09/06/2017
Read interview
Read interview in Chinese

The Diplomat: China-US Cooperation and the New Opium War

08/16/2017
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CNN: The DEA Commando-style units Captured a Heroin Godfather

08/10/2017
Read interview

Vice: The DEA Opium War with the Taliban

06/12/2017
Read interview

Television Interviews

“Chasing the Dragon: Narco Jihad”

National Geographic’s Narco Wars (Season 3, Episode 4)
08/24/2022
Watch on Hulu
Watch on NatGeo

ABC News Interview: Police Shootings and Racism

06/29/2020
Watch interview

CNN Newsroom, with Ana Cabrera

09/23/2017
Watch interview

CNN Newsroom, with Fredricka Whitfield

09/23/2017
Watch interview

CNN Declassified, Heroin’s Godfather: Haji Bagcho

09/23/2017
Watch interview
Watch series trailer

The Bridge

06/18/2017
Watch interview

Your Worst Nightmare: S2 E1, A Bump in the Night

Watch episode

Movie Appearances

In 2016, Jeffrey acted in the movie Undying. He played Officer Jeff in this horror film. It has not yet been released.
Learn more

Books Mentioning Jeffrey

Convictions, by John Kroger
The Dark Art, by Edward Follis
The Last Cowboy, by Timothy Sellers
Seeds of Terror, by Gretchen Peters
Careers in Undercover Narcotics Investigations, by Linda Bickerstaff
U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration A Tradition of Excellence, 1973-2013, published by DEA

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