Prime Minister Was a Spy

by Anthony Grey

On the morning of 17 December 1967, Harold Edward Holt, Australia's seventeenth prime minister, walked in to the sea near his holiday home at Portsea, Victoria. He swam through turbulent surf, then suddenly disappeared a short distance offshore. Despite prolonged sea and air searches no trace of his body was ever found. The mysterious circumstances of his disappearance bred rumours that he had committed suicide; other wilder stories claimed that his body had been found with a bullet in it, that he was assassinated by foreign frogmen. None of this speculation, however, has ever been substantiated and the official police report of 1968 that he drowned accidentally has never been seriously challenged in public. But now this book, based on meticulous research carried out over a ten-year period in Iraq, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Britain and Australia, offers for the first time a comprehensive alternative explanation to the mystery - and the story it tells is one of most sensational in the annals of modern espionage!

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Anthony Grey OBE was a British journalist and author. As a journalist for Reuters he was detained for 27 months in China from 1967 to 1969. He wrote a series of novels and non-fiction books, including several relating to his detention.

Reviews

[Penny · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mystery series-very thoughtful, cerebral adam dalgleish type of heroine - I want to read one of the books, did this one as an audio book and didn't get the research notes. I have some questions about the characters. good read though.