The World

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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