Houses of Solomon and Bush, Bourbon, Pahlavi and Castro
Wild Beasts and Lions: The Assads of Damascus
Imperial Peacocks: The Satanic Feast and the Angel
Did King David Retire? The Negus and Major Mengistu
Brother No. 1 and the Gang of Four
The Crusader and the Prince: European Tyrants and Democrats
Indira and Son
Little Cannon, The Eight Immortals and the Scorpion’S Gang
Castro’S Africa
The Spymaster: andropov and His ProtéGé Gorbachev
Imam, Shah and Saddam
Jj of Ghana and Sadat In Jerusalem
Operation 333 In Kabul
Poppy, Osama and W
Maggie and Indira
The Nehruvians: Third Generation
ACT TWENTY-TWO 4.4 BILLION
Yeltsins and Xis, Nehruvians and Assads, Bin Ladens, Kims and Obamas
The Idiot and the Cannon: Gorbachev, Deng and the Unipower
New Africa: Mandela and Jj, Menes and Isaias
The Familia: Boris, Tatiana and Rasputin
Knights of Damascus, Marxist Monster Movies and Kings of Data: Iphones and Daggers
Prince of the Towers
Bashar, The Bayonet and the Mona Lisa of India
Where Lions and Cheetahs Lurk
The Killing of Geronimo
ACT TWENTY-THREE 8 BILLION
Trumps and Xis, Sauds, Assads and Kims
The Caliphate and the Crimea
The Dynasts
The Emperor, The Tsar and the Comedian
Conclusion
Epigraph
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Also by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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