A CIA-orchestrated escape across the Iron Curtain led to Dennis D. Gray's life on the front lines of history.
Zdenek Messer was born in communist Czechoslovakia, and his dramatic escape to freedom paved the way for a legendary career as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. Over five decades, he has covered events from nearly 40 countries, including the Vietnam War, the fall of Phnom Penh, the "killing fields" of Cambodia, and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.In Lost Horizons, Gray recounts his encounters with royalty, assassins, and celebrities, along with his experiences with death, betrayal, and the love and friendships that developed in the midst of war. In an objective, non-chronological narrative style, this deeply personal memoir embodies the violence of global conflict and the fragility of humanity in its midst.
Drawing on eight decades of turmoil and change, Gray reflects on authoritarianism, the decline of journalism, climate change, and the shifting moral landscape of our time, while struggling with his own longing for peace and belonging.Lost Horizons is a vivid account of the astonishing changes taking place around the world, and of one man's search for a horizon that never stops moving.
