Thin Ice (Bill Kemp, Book 3)
By (Author) Michael Davies
Book 3
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
1st March 2026
24th October 2024
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
823.92
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 26mm
400g
It was a simple errand. Collect a package. Save the world.
Part James Bond, part Philip Marlowe, and all heroJeffrey Deaver
But when Bill Kemps contact washes up dead on the frozen banks of the Danube, where the Iron Curtain falls across the map of Europe, hes thrown into the heart of a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to destabilise the continent.
With winter closing in and enemies on all sides, Kemp must risk a daring expedition across the Austrian Alps to Switzerland.
His introduction to the dark world of espionage will prove as deadly as those bleak, beautiful mountains.
Readers love this series:
'Transports you to the location like a great movie'
'A gripping fast past thriller with plenty of plot twists and turns'
'Taut writing, with plenty of twists and turns. I look forward to much more from Michael Davies'
'What a delight to read old style story telling'
'A damn good thriller that kept me turning the pages right to the end'
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. He is a lifelong Desmond Bagley fan, and in 2019 reworked one of Bagley's abandoned drafts into the highly acclaimed novel Domino Island.