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.

Ex-MI-6 spy Alan Stewart is coerced by his former masters into undertaking a very simple final mission: to deliver a small parcel to a man in Iceland.

Then, when Stewart tries to deliver the parcel he realises that he has been doublecrossed and that his former boss is now a double agent.

Stewart sets off on a desperate race 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.

In 1979 the BBC broadcast a three-part espionage thriller based on the novel and with the same title, starring Stuart Wilson, Ragnheiður Steindórsdóttir,[1] George Sewell and Vladek Sheybal, and featuring, among others, Ian McCulloch, Richard Hurndall, Ed Bishop, Joe Praml and Flosi Olafsson.