Lost Horizons: A Journalist's Remarkable Life Behind the Iron Curtain, Amidst the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the Quagmires of the Middle East and a Disappearing Asia

A CIA-orchestrated escape through the Iron Curtain launched Denis D. Gray into a life on the front lines of history.

Born Zdenek Mecir in communist Czechoslovakia, Gray's dramatic flight to freedom set the stage for a legendary career as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. Over five decades reporting from nearly 40 countries, he covered the Vietnam War, the fall of Phnom Penh and Cambodia's "Killing Fields," and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In Lost Horizons, Gray recounts ...