CE Albanese AWARD-WINNING author and former special agent with the U.S. Secret Service
CE Albanese is a former US Secret Service special agent with over twenty years of law enforcement experience.
During assignments in the Newark, NJ, and New York City Field offices, he investigated complex financial crimes and conducted protective advances for some of the world’s most influential leaders. In 2011, he transferred to Washington DC to serve on then Vice President Joe Biden’s protective detail.
He is a graduate of Rutgers University and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, a special agent for the US Secret Service, and their two children.

C.E Albanese is also a member of the Virginia Writers Club and Northern Virginia Writers Club and a co-host of the THE CREW REVIEWS podcast where he interviews the world’s greatest storytellers.
His short story, Actual Stop, appeared in the August 2021 edition of the Mystery Weekly Magazine.
And his unpublished novel, Drone Kings, was selected as the 2021 Grandmaster winner of the Clive Cussler Adventure Writers Competition.
CE Albanese wrote about his experience in the US Secret Service. You can read about it here:
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