Born and educated in England, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Paul Barry studied politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University. A journalist with BBC TV for ten years, he came to Australia in 1987 to work for the ABC’s Four Corners, where one of his most controversial reports was on millionaire Alan Bond. This led to the publication in 1990 of his first book, the bestselling The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond. His second book, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer, was the top-selling biography of the decade. Barry followed up the next controversial chapter in Alan Bond’s life in Going for Broke. A former host of the ABC’s Media Watch and feature writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, Paul Barry is now the leading investigative correspondent for A Current Affair.