"They stuffed the place up." That was the phrase Kerry Packer used in a lament shared with one of his most trusted advisers - his own succinct epitaph for the old Channel 9 spoken shortly before his death. Who 'they' were and what they did to warrant their boss' stinging disapproval is precisely what this book is about. How exactly do you kill a TV network that for three decades dominated the Australian television and media landscape? In this extraordinary book, Gerald Stone gives a truly eye-opening inside account of the death of a television network. The result is a drama far more riveting than anything on television, played out by an incredible cast of characters, most of them household names, some of them business legends, and all of them as you've never, ever seen them before.

About the Author

Gerald Stone is one of Australia's best-known journalists: an award-winning reporter, founding producer of Nine Network's 60 Minutes and former editor-in-chief of the Bulletin magazine. He has previously written about Kerry Packer's Channel 9 in Compulsive Viewing, a much-talked about history of the network in its golden age. His other books include 1932, War Without Honour, and Singo: Mates, Wives, Triumphs, Disasters.