Walkley award-winning book laying out the deals and deeds of Graham Richardson, Trevor Kennedy and Rene Rivkin and Sydney's other power players of the 1990s.

Sydney Morning Herald 9 May 2006 by Norman Abjorensen

This is a very Sydney tale. In fact, as Sydney as you can get. The splendour and the sordor side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos, and the sheer brazen crookedness that has seen insiders trump the masses and rort the system ever since the Rum Rebellion.

But just who constitutes the insiders is part of this seriously researched yet at times scathingly hilarious account that traces, among other things, a subtle power shift that occurred in the final decade of the 20th century.

No one is better placed than Australian Financial Review journalist Neil Chenoweth to cast a sceptical and observant eye over the Sydney corporate scene, connecting the dots and, ever so subtly, allowing the reader to connect even more; it is an exegesis of major importance, analysing with equal care power, greed and influence. His investigations have already set in train inquiries by Australian authorities, including ASIC's probe of the accounts of the failed telco One.Tel and an ongoing examination of Swiss bank accounts and related business deals.

And what a cast! Just for starters - and these are the real stars - former media heavyweight Trevor Kennedy, ex-politician and powerbroker Graham Richardson and the flamboyant former stockbroker and convicted insider trader, the late Rene Rivkin.