by Desmond Bagley
Dramatised in three parts by Jack Gerson
starring Stuart Wilson, Heida Steindørsdøttir and George Sewell
Former British Agent Alan Stewart is blackmailed by his old boss, Slade. to undertake a simple delivery job in Iceland. The job is as simple as sudden death.
BBC Scotland

9.25 pm Running Blind: Desmond Bagley's best-seller, now a fast-moving TV thriller with an Icelandic background. Here Jack Gerson introduces the leading characters:
ALAN STEWART has a past he is trying to forget. That past included strange journeys abroad, passports in many names, dangerous encounters and sudden death in a northern forest. Believing all this is over, he receives a visitor from his past and finds himself again on a mission into the unknown.
ELIN RAGNARSDOTTIR met and fell in love with Alan Stewart. Suddenly her love for Alan leads her into a nightmare chase across the wild hinterland of her native Iceland, the Odadahraun, the ' Murderer's Country ' of Icelandic legend. And for Elin it becomes again murderer's country...
SLADE, a high-ranking officer in British Intelligence, has made a career out of corruption and betrayal. He will use Alan as a courier to carry a mysterious piece of equipment; and, when Alan's usefulness is at an end, will not hesitate to terminate his mission with ' extreme prejudice'.
VASLAV KENNIKIN is Slade's opposite numbet in the KGB. A complex man, he is tormented by a desire for vengeance against the enemy he once counted as friend. That enemy is Alan Stewart...
Above, left to right: Vladek Sheybal as Kennikin, Heida Steindorsdottir as Elin, George Sewell as Slade; and centre. Stuart Wilson as Alan Stewart.