"The Thoughts of Chairman Grey" presents the highly charge verbatim transcription of the text of the author's secret shorthand diaries which he wrote and kept hidden during his period of two years and two months solitary confinement as a hostage in China. The reader receives a powerful sense of feeling what it was like, moment by moment, to be held hostage in isolation in a hostile land. He says he now sees the two harrowing years held in a slogan daubed house in the heart of Beijing as 'a huge delayed action privilege' and realises, more than three decades later, how the insights provided by that experience - and the very act of keeping those secret diaries themselves - helped shape his life positively after his release. He has been an avid journal keeper ever since and in an accompanying commentary he extols the virtues of that reflective discipline.

Anthony Grey has become best known as the international best
selling author of epic historical novels Saigon, Peking, Tokyo Bay and The
Bangkok Secret as well as his gripping original account of his time in
China, Hostage in Peking which was a best seller in seven countries and is
now being republished simultaneously in a new edition entitled Hostage in
Peking Plus