Frank C. Strunk's latest thriller, BLOOD PERSONAL, is a contemporary crime novel about Fate Hanlon, a battle-tempered special forces veteran with roots anchored deep in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Fate has a "blood personal" motive that propels him into a single-minded one-man assault against a vicious drug ring. His initial contact with the ring in a small city at the edge of the Bluegrass in Central Kentucky soon reveals that he has touched only one tentacle of a criminal enterprise with connections reaching far beyond the town of Granville. BLOOD PERSONAL carries a full cargo of action, violence, mystery, suspense and a burning quest for justice (some say vengeance) -- plus an irresistible romance and a high-velocity ending. The story is permeated with a powerful sense of place and punctuated with plenty of twists and turns and surprises and substance. BLOOD PERSONAL is a tale as compelling and timely as today's news. And it is definitely NOT your typical PC production. Readers fed up with watching murderous thuggery go unpunished are responding with their hearts as well as their heads to Fate Hanlon's cut-to-the-quick attitude and head-on direct action as he seeks out and confronts an array of deadly characters entangled in today's most urgent and heartrending problems. Be prepared for an explosive and breathless full-throttle ride with Fate Hanlon through BLOOD PERSONAL from its riveting opening to its pulse-pounding climax. The big question is, "When the smoke finally clears, how many will be left standing?"