Steve Brown

Steven K. Brown began his investigative career as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, serving in Phoenix, Chicago and San Juan Puerto Rico. During those 11 years he worked cases ranging from Bank Robberies to Theft of Government Property. In the Phoenix Division he was in charge of investigating crimes on the Pima, Papago and Maricopa Indian Reservations, giving him experience most FBI agents never receive -- arsons, burglaries, rapes, homicides, and the use of deceased infant birth certificates for illegal purposes, for which he was commended by then FBI Director Clarence Kelley.

Steve developed expertise in Foreign Counter-Intelligence and Domestic Terrorism and surveillance for which he received commendations by several Directors of the Bureau. In San Juan, Steve supervised White Collar Crime, Foreign Counter-Intelligence and a Domestic Anti-Terrorism Squad, which tracked the Puerto Rican terrorists responsible for the high explosive detonation of a squadron of Air National Guard Jets, a rocket attack on the U.S. Federal Building in Hato Rey, and the murder of a half-dozen U.S. Navy personnel. His responsibilities included using physical and electronic surveillance means and running a mobile off-site surveillance squad.

For the last 18 years he has successfully managed his own private investigative firm serving clients with investigative needs ranging from simple pre-employment background checks to sophisticated white-collar crime thefts, from murders disguised as suicides to the returning of parentally abducted children from foreign lands. For one corporate client Brown locates (skip-traces) 2000 persons per month. He has followed and photographed wayward husbands and wives from the Pacific Northwest, by sailboat in the Bahamas and on the beaches of the Virgin Islands.

Steve has published non-fiction articles in Gambling Times and been mentioned professionally in newspapers across the nation and national magazines such as Business Week. His appearances include local and national television including Hard Copy. He appeared with Mike Wallace on Sixty-Minutes discussing his investigation into the Kimberly Bergalis case, the patient who claimed she contracted aids from her dentist. He speaks frequently before civic and professional groups, maintains his membership in the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has been Secretary of the local chapter for a number of years.

At the 2001 Harriette Austin Writers Conference, Steve presented a proposal to Jessica Faust of Bookends, LLC. Growing out of that introduction, Bookends took on Steve as a client and together they developed Steve's forthcoming book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigation, due to be published by Alpha Books, summer 2002.