Foreword and Acknowledgements
Glossary of Abbreviations
1. It Has to Be the Caspian
2. You Can See Where the President Gets His Iron Gloves
3. They Alone Can Light for Us the Road to the Promised Land
4. Lots of Empty Skyscrapers That We Can't Keep Clean
5. The Wide Stream of Oil Gushed Over the Greasy Earth
6. If the Pipeline Burns, I'll Burn with It
7. Schrader s Instruction Is Paper for the Toilet
8. Do You Have Any Books?
9. Without Having to Amend Local Laws, We Went Above or Around Them by Using a Treaty
10. We Closed It Down to the Media
11. We Live in a Corridor of Violence
12. It Is Ash to the Eyes
13. I Will Stop You, I'll Smash Your Camera!
14. No-one Wants this Pipeline on Their CV. It's an Embarrassment
15. The Trench Sides Could Collapse On Top of Children
16. Don't Sleep - Save Your Sea
17. Military Forces Sanitise the Area Ahead of the Merchant Ships
18. They Have Long Arms … Like the Arms of an Octopus
20. This Is the Auschwitz Generation, and There's No Arguing with Them
21. A Liquid Distilled from a Fossilised Ecosystem
Map I. Overview of the Caspian-Bavaria Route
Map II. Western Caspian and Azerbaijan
Map III. Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey
Map IV. The Mediterranean
Map V. Italy-Austria-Germany