CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLERIGHTNOW) – Tim Heaphy, lead investigator for the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack and Charlottesville’s Unite the Right, former University of Virginia counsel and previous United States attorney for the Western District of Virginia, will soon have a new title: published author. 

Harbinger: What January 6 and Charlottesville Say About Threats to American Democracy, will target a national audience but for people in the Charlottesville area, it’s personal. Like Heaphy, people who witnessed Unite the Right saw similarities between that deadly 2017 rally and the 2021 insurrection. But as someone who was the chief investigator of both, and who lives where one took place, his depth of knowledge is hard to match. 

“I had a lot swimming around in my head from my work on these two investigations that I kind of wanted to bring together in one place, and I’ve been doing some media stuff and some speeches about it, and I thought maybe I should just pull it all together in one place and thankfully there was a publisher who was interested.” 

The book traces connections between Unite the Right and the attack on the Capitol, after which it talks broadly about threats to American democracy and what it takes to preserve it. 

Published by Steerforth Press, Harbingers will be distributed by Penguin Random House and released on February 4, 2025.