Phillip Thompson

Best-selling author Phillip Thompson, a native of East Mississippi, received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ole Miss. A Marine Corps combat veteran, he has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Mississippi and Virginia. He has also worked as a defense analyst; media spokesman; consultant; speechwriter and Senate aide.

Thompson is the author of four novels: the Amazon Best Seller "Outside the Law," Deep Blood," "A Simple Murder," and "Enemy Within." His short fiction has appeared in O-Dark-Thirty; The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature; Out of the Gutter Online; Thrills, Kills 'N' Chaos; Near to the Knuckle; Yellow Mama; and The Shamus Sampler II. He attended the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference as a fiction writer in 2003.

He lives in Virginia. Follow him on Twitter (@olemissgrad38) and his blog, "Grace & Violence" (kudzucorner.wordpress.com).