This is an account, by two award-winning financial journalists, of the controversial acquisition of the Fairfax Group, Australia's leading newspaper group, by the Tourang Consortium, of which Conrad Black and his Daily Telegraph company are key members. With all the elements of a corporate dog-fight - internecine family rows, high-risk media dealings, the interweaving of business and politics - the book describes both the background and the developments of the battle, culminating in the final days before the deal was struck.