Running Blind / The Freedom Trap

by Desmond Bagley

  978-0-00-730481-3

  DESMOND BAGLEY

  ‘Bagley in top form.’ Evening Standard

  THE SPOILERS

  When film tycoon Robert Hellier loses his daughter to heroin, he declares war on the drug pedlars, the faceless overlords whose greed supplies the world with its deadly pleasures. London drug specialist Nicholas Warren is called upon to organise an expedition to the Middle East to track down and destroy them—but with a hundred million dollars’ worth of heroin at stake, Warren knows he will have to use methods as deadly as his prey…

  JUGGERNAUT

  It is no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at just five miles per hour, its job—and that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix—is to move a giant transformer across an oil-rich African state. But when Nyala erupts in civil war, Mannix’s juggernaut is at the centre of the conflict—a target of ambush and threat, with no way to run and nowhere to hide…

  ‘Bagley is a master story-teller.’

  Daily Mirror

  978-0-00-730480-6

  About the Author

  RUNNING BLIND THE FREEDOM TRAP

  Desmond Bagley was born in 1923 in Kendal, Westmorland, and brought up in Blackpool. He began his working life, aged 14, in the printing industry and then did a variety of jobs until going into an aircraft factory at the start of the Second World War.

  When the war ended, he decided to travel to southern Africa, going overland through Europe and the Sahara. He worked en route, reaching South Africa in 1951.

  Bagley became a freelance journalist in Johannesburg and wrote his first published novel, The Golden Keel, in 1962. In 1964 he returned to England and lived in Totnes, Devon, for twelve years. He and his wife Joan then moved to Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Here he found the ideal place for combining his writing and his other interests, which included computers, mathematics, military history, and entertaining friends from all over the world.

  Desmond Bagley died in April 1983, having become one of the world’s top-selling authors, with his 16 books—two of them published after his death—translated into more than 30 languages.

  ‘I’ve read all Bagley’s books and he’s marvellous, the best.’

  ALISTAIR MACLEAN

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  By the same author

  Flyaway AND Windfall

  The Golden Keel AND The Vivero Letter

  High Citadel AND Landslide

  The Snow Tiger AND Night of Error

  The Spoilers AND Juggernaut

  The Tightrope Men AND The Enemy

  Wyatt’s Hurricane AND Bahama Crisis

  Copyright

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  This omnibus edition 2009

  FIRST EDITION

  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 Winter’s Crimes 8, edited by Hilary Watson, by Macmillan 1976

  Desmond Bagley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works

  Copyright © Brockhurst Publications 1970, 1971, 1976

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