Jeffrey S. Stephens

Jeffrey S. Stephens is an American novelist best known for the writing of international thriller series of novels. His most popular series is the “Jordan Series” that debuted with the 2003 published “The Portofino Deception” that was later renamed “Targets of Deception”. Stephen was born and raised in the Marble Hill neighborhood in the Bronx, a borough that has produced some of the most renowned of artists and literary practitioners such as Edgar Allan Poe, E.L. Doctorow, Don Delillo, and Richard Price among others. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and by the time he was 19, he had graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a Creative Writing B.A. During this time, Stephens had been writing the manuscript for his first novel though as a pastime, as he never thought he would ever be a professional author. As such, writing was something that he did for several years while he studied for his law degree at Fordham University. As it turns out, it was his law career, which would open the doors for him to become an author. As a legal practitioner, he has a wide range of experience in criminal and civil law and represented many celebrity clients in court and in the boardroom. His writing career was jump started more by accident rather than by design, when one of his friends mentioned that he was a writer while they were playing golf with a literary agent. When he showed the manuscript of the “Portofino Deception” to the agent, he loved it so much that he had it published within weeks. Encouraged by his wife and the novel’s commercial success, Stephens has never looked back since. Stephens currently lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife Nancy and their two children. Stephens is an avid tennis player, golfer, and skier who has traveled across the Caribbean, Asia, Europe and the US.