- Michael Davies, From an idea by Desmond Bagley

Bill Kemp - Outback: The Desmond Bagley Centenary Thriller (Bill Kemp, Book 2)

By Michael Davies, From an idea by Desmond Bagley
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A powerful debut novel set in Australia, continuing the legacy of ‘Master of the Genre’ Desmond Bagley.

The Sequel to Desmond Bagley’s DOMINO ISLAND

Insurance investigator Bill Kemp had never wanted to trek deep into Australia’s remote interior. But when his clients Sophie and Adam Church inherit an abandoned opal mine, triggering some explosive long-lost secrets, they – and Kemp – find themselves facing an unknown enemy even more deadly than the vast, forbidding wilderness of the Outback…

The Desmond Bagley centenary novel honours the legacy of the bestselling thriller writer with a new adventure featuring Bill Kemp, described by Jeffrey Deaver as ‘part James Bond, part Philip Marlowe, and all hero’. Writer Michael Davies, who completed the first Kemp novel Domino Island for publication nearly 40 years after the author’s death, now weaves an original tale of danger and death under the blistering Australian sun.

Author: Michael Davies , Desmond Bagley
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 26 Oct 2023
Pages: 320
ISBN: 978-0-00-858139-8
Michael Davies began his career as a newspaper journalist and editor and a professional theatre critic. Since moving into fiction, his writing has appeared on stage, screen, radio, the printed page and online. His debut play won a national competition, and subsequent work includes Tess – The Musical, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. He is a lifelong Desmond Bagley fan, and in 2019 reworked one of Bagley’s abandoned drafts into the highly acclaimed novel Domino Island.

Praise for the previous book, Domino Island: -

”'What a wonderful book! And a protagonist for all time, Bill Kemp” - part James Bond, part Philip Marlowe, and all hero. A brilliant and timeless novel’JEFFERY DEAVER

‘A vintage Bagley scenario of siege, jeopardy and explosive action’MIKE RIPLEY -

‘Like a dream come true - an undiscovered Desmond Bagley novel … and it’s a great one!’LEE CHILD -