Running Blind (Bagley novel)

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Running Blind

First edition
Author	Desmond Bagley
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Thriller novel
Publisher	Collins
Publication date	1970
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	254 pp
ISBN	0-00-616534-6
OCLC	15017582
Preceded by	The Spoilers
Followed by	The Freedom Trap

Running Blind is a first person narrative espionage thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1970 with a cover by Norman Weaver.

Plot introduction[]

Ex-MI-6 spy Alan Stewart is coerced by his former masters to undertake a very simple final mission – to deliver a small parcel to a man in Iceland. The mission should be simple for Stewart, as he happens to be fluent in Icelandic, and has an Icelandic girlfriend.

However, immediately things go very wrong, very quickly. Soon after arrival, he is forced to kill a KGB agent who tried to take the package from him. When he tries to deliver the parcel, he realizes that he has been double-crossed, and that his former boss is now a double agent. Stewart sets off on a desperate race overland across some of the world’s most rugged, desolate and dramatic scenery, pursued by the KGB, the CIA, and his own people, who now think that he has become a traitor. The secret is with the mysterious parcel – and the opposition is more than willing to kill him to prevent him from discovering what that secret is.

Television series[]

In 1979 the BBC aired a three part espionage thriller with the same title based on the novel, starring Stuart Wilson, ,^[1] George Sewell and Vladek Sheybal, and featured among others Ian McCulloch, Richard Hurndall, Ed Bishop, and . It was made by BBC Scotland and largely filmed on location in Iceland.^[2][3]

External links[]

• Crime Time review of Desmond Bagley
• Fantastic Fiction site with publication history

References[]

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