Packer's Lunch

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction, November 2003

1 Back in the saddle, July–October 1990

Part one: The three amigos

2 Mixing with money

3 Leaving Albany

4 The Olympian, October 1997

5 Wrestling with emotion, 1991

Part two: Friends of James

6 Vapour trails

7 Solid work among the shrubbery, 1992

8 Packer’s trifecta, 1992

9 The Phantom, 1993

Part three: Hot news

10 A very good fire, 1993

11 Under The Toaster, 1994

Part four: Strange days, Mama

12 Rivkin’s party, 1994

13 Under surveillance, 1995

14 On the clifftop, 1995

Part five: The rise of the suits

15 The friends of Machiavelli, 1996–97

16 The secret pilgrims, 1996–97

17 Death by Double Bay, 1998–2000

18 A tale of two networks, 1998–99

Part six: A change of cutlery

20 Many unhappy discoveries, 2001

21 True confessions, 2001–03

22 Under the boardwalk, 2004–05