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
Watch Interview
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
Watch my video
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
Watch a guest interview
View episode list
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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
Read the article
Real Clear Investigations
12/14/2021
Read the article
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
Read the article
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
Read the article
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
Read interview
Author Interview in The Big Thrill Magazine
06/01/2021
Read interview
Author Interview on Sue Rovens’ Blog
05/24/2021
Read interview
Author Interview on Lois Winston’s Blog
05/23/2021
Read interview
Author Interview on Elena Hartwell’s Blog
05/21/2021
Read interview
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
Read interview
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
Read interview
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
Read interview
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
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