Deep Blood - Softcover

Deep Blood is the story of Mississippi sheriff Colt Harper, whose moral compass is slightly askew - separated but not divorced from his wife, he sleeps with a New Orleans stripper who regularly violates the drug laws of Lowndes County, he drinks too much and habitually ignores the more mundane aspects of his sworn duty. Even when he must investigate the death of a young man - the son of a close friend - his mind wanders from the subsequent investigation. But when his alcoholic, amoral father Winston is arrested - yet again - for DUI, he learns an inexcusable truth about his father's past, a truth he wants to ignore but knows he must confront.

Phillip Thompson grew up in rural East Mississippi, where most of his fiction is set. A combat veteran, journalist, speechwriter and consultant, he is the author of two novels, "Enemy Within "and "A Simple Murder," and one non-fiction book, "Into the Storm: A U.S. Marine in the Persian Gulf War." His short fiction has appeared in The Review, the literary journal of the Veterans Writing Project. He attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2003. He lives in Stafford, Virginia. Find him online at http://kudzucorner.wordpress.com.