CONTENTS

Introduction

1 Loss and Uncertainty

2 Free Thinking

3 Working Around the Law

4 Time for Love

5 Workaholic

6 The Struggle to Fly

7 Private Cartels and Public Injustice

8 Dear Mr President

9 Secret Men’s Business

10 The Peter Pan of Politics

11 Taking on the Media Magnates

12 Angus & Robertson

13 Cornering the Market

14 Life of the Party

15 Restrained Luxury

16 Cash Crisis

17 Feisty and Intelligent Women

18 Style and Elegance

19 Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

20 Taking on the World

21 One Big Happy Family

22 Borrowed Time

23 Collapse of an Empire

24 The Clarity of Cocaine

25 The Hurlingham Horror Show

26 Illegal Immigrants

Epilogue

Bibliography

Acknowledgements