I first meet Jodee Rich two months after the collapse of One.Tel. It's no suprise that he looks a bit rough. The company he founded has been snatched from him and shut down. He's been branded a liar and a criminal by the press, has incurred the wrath of the most frightening man in Australia, Kerry Packer, and has offended the nation's most powerful media baron, Rupert Murdoch. Worst of all, his dream is in ruins and people are saying he's failed again.
In early 2000 the media were calling him a genius. Now there's an almost $2 billion black hole. this is the inside story of the spectacular corporate disaster that took its toll not only on thousands of ordinary Australians but two of our most powerful families, the Murdochs and the Packers... told as only Paul Barry can tell it.