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Anthony Grey is the inspirational celebrity speaker and international
best-selling novelist who attracted worldwide headlines at the age of 29 when he was made the
first international hostage of the modern era - in China. In Beijing as chief
correspondent for Reuters news agency, he was held for two harsh years in solitary
confinement under the control of Mao Tse-tung’s Red Guards. After his release he went
on to become:
- UK International Journalist of the Year (IPC Awards)
- A celebrity talk show guest in New York on Westinghouse TV’s David Frost Show and ABC’s
Dick Cavett Show -- and on other leading talk shows around the world
- His book Hostage in Peking was a best seller in the USA, UK and five other countries.
- He later found new success as an international best-selling author of historical novels
Saigon, Peking and Tokyo Bay. Estimated USA and worldwide sales of all his books stand at 2.5
million in 17 languages
- He also became a radio and television broadcaster, writing and presenting television
documentary films for BBC, ITV and Channel 4
- For six years he broadcast daily from London as a BBC World Service news and current
affairs radio presenter
- He made worldwide headlines again in the mid-1980s as an investigative non-fiction
author - publishing a sensational, exclusive book explaining that Harold Holt, Australia’s
seventeenth prime minister, disappeared without trace in l967 because he had been spying
for China.
- In the last five years he has additionally become an entrepreneur-publisher,
 producing
and selling worldwide through his Tagman Press imprint, books and audio-visual products,
which challenge convention in the fields of health, science and spiritual understanding.
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