Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey discovered the risks of being a foreign correspondent in a communist country the hard way. His first international assignment for Reuters news agency was as East Europe correspondent based in Berlin during the height of the Cold War.

But working under constant surveillance by the Stazi – the East German secret police – was scant preparation for what was to follow, a posting to Peking (now Beijing) at the height of Chairman Mao Tse Tsung’s so-called Cultural Revolution.

Grey was arrested as a ‘spy’ and incarcerated for two years in the basement of his house, with contact only with Red Guards. This experience led to Grey’s first book Hostage in Peking and set him on a new career – as an international best selling novelist. Grey's books and short stories have been translated into some seventeen languages worldwide. His best known books are Saigon, Peking, Tokyo Bay and The Bangkok Secret.

Anthony has also had a successful broadcasting career, making documentary films for British television, and broadcasting internationally on radio on  the BBC World Service. He now lives where his career began, in Norwich, Norfolk, where he founded The Tagman Press.

Books written by Anthony Grey and published by Tagman Press

This best-selling book of the 1970s is being republished with an updated postscript from the author Anthony Grey, describing his life experiences over the past 30 years and putting the experience as a hostage in Pekinginto perspective. He explains why and how he has moved from becoming an international best-selling novelist – Saigon, Peking, TokyoBay, The Bangkok Secret are his best-known books – to founding a new global publishing imprint The Tagman Press.

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What is the Universe In?
Originally published in 1971 under the title A Man Alone, the book first appeared as a companion volume to Hostage in Peking, Anthony Grey's account of his experience as a prisoner of Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards, which became a bestseller in seven countries.

New material has been added to this re-titled edition and in a new Preface the author says : 'Rebirthing these stories now in the year 2003 allows me to clarify the insights I gained in China. In particular they concern the place of our planet in relation to the rest of the known universe and ultimately our connection to other extra-terrestrial races that I submit are secretly and widely known to exist'.

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Saigon Volume 1
Vietnam's heady tropical landscape captivates fifteen year-old Joseph Sherman on a hunting expedition to French colonial Saigon with his family in 1925. He is lured back again by his enduring fascination for the country and for Lan, a beautiful Vietnamese mandarin's daughter he could never forget. Over five haunting decades Joseph's life becomes deeply enmashed with Vietnam's turbulent, war-torn fate - until he attempts to salvage something of lasting value during the final desperate helicopter scramble to flee defeated Saigon.

In this first volume, Joseph sees harsh French colonial rulers incurring 'the hatred of a million coolies' - and sowing the seeds of later tragic warfare with America.

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Saigon Volume 2
Vietnam's tropical landscape first captivated fifteen year-old Joseph Sherman on a hunting expedition to Saigon with his family in 1925. Lured back again and again by his enduring fascination for the country and for Lan, a beautiful Vietnamese mandarin's daughter he could never forget, Joseph and his family become deeply enmeshed with Vietnam's turbulent, war-torn fate.

In this second volume at My Lai, in the notorious 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and during the devastating Tet Offensive, Joseph and his own sons share the suffering of those divided Vietnamese families with whom the Shermans forge life-long links. As Saigon falls, Joseph returns for the last time in a deperate attempt to slavage something worthwhile from the ruins.

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