石油大亨J. Paul Getty的孫子John Paul Getty III在義大利遭綁架勒贖，雖然擁有龐大財產的Getty家族，卻堅持拒付天價贖金，只有Getty III的母親Gail Harris在前CIA探員調查與協助下，跟綁匪談判、企圖救回兒子，卻受到家族百般阻撓。

這起綁架案受到國際媒體極大關注，也漸漸挖出Getty家族不為人知的黑暗祕辛！


Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode – the kidnap and ransom of grandson Paul Getty – is now a major motion picture, directed by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay written by David Scarpa and starring Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer and Mark Wahlberg.

When sixteen-year-old Paul Getty was kidnapped, the news exploded worldwide. But his grandfather, J. Paul Getty, the richest living American, refused to pay the ransom, oblivious to his sufferings. And as the days dragged painfully on, it was Paul’s distraught but determined mother Gail who was left to negotiate with his captors…

In this full biography of the Getty family, John Pearson traces the creation of their phenomenal wealth and the ways in which it has touched and tainted the lives of various generations. Packed with colourful characters, bitter feuds and unexpected turns, it is a riveting insight into the lives of the super-rich.