Desmond Bagley was a highly accomplished and prolific author of adventure thrillers in the ’s and ’s. Running Blind is a spy thriller set in ’s Iceland. It’s a good story with good characterization, well written and lots of action. Its only flaws are some minor /5(). Running Blind was published in with a cover design by Norman Weaver. ‘It’ll be simple,’ Slade had said. ‘You’re just a messenger boy.’. To Alan Stewart, alone on a lonely road in Iceland with a murdered man in front of him and a mysterious parcel which Slade, Secret Service chief, had commissioned him to deliver in his car, it looked anything but www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min. · Desmond Bagley’s Running Blind. The period from the s to the s was a golden age of British thriller writing. There was of course Ian Fleming but most of the British thriller writers of this era followed a rather different formula from that of the Bond novels, with heroes who were rather unglamorous and rather ordinary although usually tough professionals.
Desmond Bagley's Running Blind The period from the s to the s was a golden age of British thriller writing. There was of course Ian Fleming but most of the British thriller writers of this era followed a rather different formula from that of the Bond novels, with heroes who were rather unglamorous and rather ordinary although usually. Running Blind Desmond Bagley First published in the UK, , Collins This edition, , House of Stratus ISBN: pages Like a proper thriller, this starts by chucking you into the middle of something. Alan Stewart is standing by the side of a desolate road in Iceland, having just stabbed somebody to death. He. Running Blind is a really enjoyable thriller and more than stands up after all these decades. This was a real treat. As a kid, my dad had a pile of Desmond Bagley, Hammond Innes Alistair MacLean books.
Desmond Bagley’s Running Blind. The period from the s to the s was a golden age of British thriller writing. There was of course Ian Fleming but most of the British thriller writers of this era followed a rather different formula from that of the Bond novels, with heroes who were rather unglamorous and rather ordinary although usually tough professionals. Running Blind is a first person narrative espionage thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in with a cover by Norman Weaver. "Running Blind" is a pursuit story: a spy courier is attacked on a milk run, he suspects hi Of the three, my sense is that Bagley has best survived the changing times and literary fashions. To be sure, none of them wrote the page brainkillers that became popular in the 80s; but their page novels are well-plotted, expertly written, and rarely feel over-long.
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