Steven R. Peterson

Before becoming an author and trainer, he spent nearly three decades as a Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. According to professional biographies published by law-enforcement training organizations, he worked in Boston, New York, Atlanta, and Charlotte, and at the time of his retirement in 2010 he was described as the most senior street agent in the DEA worldwide.

He later continued in training and education roles, including work as an adjunct instructor for the DEA Academy in Quantico and as an instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Those same biographies also note that he taught tens of thousands of law-enforcement officers and co-authored a DEA training manual.

Because the available public information located here comes mainly from training and speaker profiles rather than major literary or biographical sources, some personal and publishing details are limited. Even so, the record that is publicly available shows a writer whose authority comes from long, direct experience in federal law enforcement.