On the morning of 17 December 967, Harold Edward Holt, Australia's seventeenth prime minister, walked into 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 had been assassinated by foreign frogmen. Bu 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 the most sensational in the annals of modern espionage.
Used availability for Anthony Grey's The Prime Minister Was a Spy