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. A lifelong Desmond Bagley fan, he completed for publication Bagley’s ‘lost’ manuscript, Domino Island, nearly forty years after the author’s death, followed by his own original novel, Outback, in 2023.

Praise for the previous books in this series:‘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‘Exotic, wild and dangerous – and Land Rovers, naturally.’MIKE RIPLEY‘Faithful to Desmond Bagley.’THE TIMES

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. A lifelong Desmond Bagley fan, he completed for publication Bagley’s ‘lost’ manuscript, Domino Island, nearly forty years after the author’s death, followed by his own original novel, Outback, in 2023.

Praise for the previous books in this series:‘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‘Exotic, wild and dangerous – and Land Rovers, naturally.’MIKE RIPLEY‘Faithful to Desmond Bagley.’THE TIMES