Time when money was cheap so long as you had the guts to ask for it. Laurie
Blake did and with it he built his Bridges of Dreams. A small debt might have
been his problem, but a billion dollar debt was the banks'. It is a ferocious and
funny portrait of the rise and rise of a former truckie and slaughterhouse
owner turned entrepreneur. A womaniser, art collector and friend to prime
ministers, Laurie Blake, the takeover king of Australia, rampages his way
through a decade when the whole country seemed out of control.
Published by Currency Press 1993
Winner 1994 Victorian Premier's Literary Award
