![James Packer is expected to buy back Crown's half-share of the Packer family's rural estate, Ellerston.](/web/20170312002026im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/7/2/u/1/image.related.wideLandscape.620x349.guuimu.png/1489057974731.jpg)
The thriller starring a spy boss, a PM and James Packer
It sounds like the Hollywood thriller with everything: The prime minister, the movie mogul, spy boss and pop chanteuse – and an Aussie billionaire who is probably wondering what on earth he has blundered into.