Errol Flynn The true story of Australia's Hollywood icon

Handsome and charismatic, Errol Flynn was one of the first great screen idols. He mesmerised millions around the world with his swordsmanship, swagger and smouldering sexuality. He portrayed an array of heroes in the Golden Age of Hollywood, and his life off screen was no less colourful. This groundbreaking biography is the first complete account of Errol Flynn's life, from his unusual childhood in Tasmania and damaging family secrets, to his time in the brutal plantations of New Guinea, and his discovery by a Warner talent spotter. He quickly found fame in lead roles in blockbuster films like Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. He was the man who had it all, who every man wanted to be, who every woman wanted. This is a revealing and intimate portrait of Flynn, and gives serious attention to the many women in his life for the first time. Flynn's 1943 rape trial uncovered the sexual trafficking of underage girls in Hollywood on a grand scale. Tragically, he died aged only fifty, the result of a life lived to excess. 'Such a great story. I wish I had written this.' Peter FitzSimons 'Immaculately researched and brilliantly told. Errol Flynn is more gripping than all his movies put together.' Alison Bashford 'O'Brien brilliantly takes us to the dark heart of the world's most famous dream factory and one of its most notorious, and celebrated, habitues.' Frank Bongiorno 'By any measure, this is a portrait of a life lived on an intensely epic level that thoroughly justifies the saying that his life generated: "In like Flynn"' Sydney Morning Herald '[A] fascinating biography...As O'Brien relates, the reality of Flynn's (not so) private life was chaotic, complicated and squalid. Flynn was gifted with impossibly handsome looks and outrageous good fortune yet was hellbent on self-destruction.' The Australian