One-time media mogul Conrad Black is on US$21 million bail in the US awaiting sentence on November 30 after being convicted in July on three counts of fraud and one count of obstructing justice. Canadian-born Black, 63, who renounced his citizenship in 2001 to secure a British peerage, faces up to 35 years in a US prison. So the spectacular fall continues for Lord Black of Crossharbour, at one time alleged with former Hollinger International president David Radler to have stolen US$1.2 billion from the company. 'The only charge that anyone can level against us is one of being insufficiently generous to ourselves,' Black said. By the telling of Tom Bower, 'the premier bloodhound of British journalism', Black and his second wife, the busty and evidently rapacious Barbara Amiel, whom he married in 1992, lived the multibillionaire lifestyle of his-and-her private jets on a multimillionaire's resources. Conrad and Lady Black - Dancing on the Edge chronicles his systematic looting of the companies he controlled, this edition adding 100 pages on Black's 14-week trial earlier this year. Bower was panned by The New York Times, but British critics relished his account of 'Mr Money and Attila the Honey'.