Tucson Festival of Books

Kenneth R. Strange


Kenneth Strange Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955.  A former FBI Special Agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), DOJ Special Agent in Charge, PI and current author, Ken came out in 2023 with an award-winning true crime memoir, “A Cop’s Son: One G-Man’s Fight Against Jihad, Global Fraud and the Cartels.”

This true crime memoir has not only been hailed respectively as ‘gripping’ and ‘compelling’ by Ray Kelly and Bill Bratton former NYC Police Commissioners, but described as required reading by the former Assistant Inspector General of the CIA.

Strange served with three distinct and distinguished federal agencies (FBI, US Agency for International Development and the Department of Justice) during a highly decorated 21-year career.  

Kenneth Strange has both an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona and a master’s in liberal studies from SUNY New York.  He speaks Spanish and Basic Arabic.

Strange’s first book, the travel adventure “It’s Your Camino: One Couple’s 500-Mile Pilgrimage Across Spain” was published in 2019 and garnered several awards including an IPPY.  His third book, “Land of Sand,” scheduled to debut in late 2025, is a ‘coming of age’ love story set in the Middle East.

In his spare time, Ken enjoys hiking, reading and traveling. He is married to an RN, has twin adult children and lives in Ventura County, California. He recently became a grandfather for the second time.


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Book:
A Cop's Son: One G-Man's Fight Against Jihad, Global Fraud and the Cartels
One G-Man's Fight Against Jihad, Global Fraud And The Cartels
True Crime
History Publishing Company LLC
June 2023
ISBN 9781951008703
354 pages