DESMOND BAGLEY
Running Blind
AND
The Freedom Trap
COPYRIGHT
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Running Blind first published in Great Britain by Collins 1970 The Freedom Trap first published in Great Britain by Collins 1971 A Matter of Months first published in Winters Crimes 8, edited by Hilary Watson, by Macmillan 1976
Copyright © Brockhurst Publications 1970, 1971, 1976
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Version: 2018-10-12
PRAISE
Sizzling adventure.
Evening Standard
Bagley has become a master of the genre a thriller writer of intelligence and originality.
Sunday Times
Compulsively readable.
Guardian
From word one, youre off. Bagleys one of the best.
The Times
The best adventure stories I have read for years.
Daily Mirror
Bagley has no equal at this sort of thing.
Sunday Mirror
Tense, heroic, chastening a thumping good story.
Sunday Express
The detail is immaculately researched the action has the skill to grab your heart or your bowels.
Daily Mirror
Bagley in top form.
Evening Standard
Bagley is a master story-teller.
Daily Mirror
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Praise
Running Blind
Dedication
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
The Freedom Trap
Dedication
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Keep Reading
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
RUNNING BLINDDEDICATION
To: Torfi, Gudjon, Helga, Gisli, HerdisValtýr, Gudmundur, Teitur, Siggi, and allthe other Icelanders.
Thanks for lending me your country.
ONE
To be encumbered with a corpse is to be in a difficult position, especially when the corpse is without benefit of death certificate. True, any doctor, even one just hatched from medical school, would have been able to diagnose the cause of death. The man had died of heart failure or what the medical boys pompously call cardiac arrest.