Phillip Thompson

Best-selling author Phillip Thompson, a native of rural 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 six novels: the Amazon best-sellers, "Not Dead Enough," "Old Anger," and "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.

He lives in Virginia. Find him on Instagram phillip_thompson_writer.