The prize: the epic quest for oil, money, and power

THE FOUNDERS: Oil on the brain the beginning

Our Plan John D. Rockefeller and the combination of American oil

Competitive commerce

The new century

The dragon slain

The oil wars the rise of Royal Dutch, the fall of imperial Russia

Beer and Skittles in Persia

The fateful plunge

THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE: The blood of victory World War I

Opening the door on the Middle East the Turkish petroleum company

From shortage to surplus the age of gasoline

The fight for new production

The flood

Friends and enemies the Arabian concessions the world that Frank Holmes made

WAR AND STRATEGY: Japan's road to war

Germany's formula for war

Japan's achilles' heel

The Allies' war

THE HYDROCARBON AGE: The new center of gravity

The postwar petroleum order

Fifty-fifty the new deal in oil

Old Mossy and the struggle for Iran

The Suez crisis

The elephants

OPEC and the surge pot

Hydrocarbon man

THE BATTLE FOR WORLD MASTERY: The hinge years countries versus companies

The oil weapon

Bidding for our life

OPEC's imperium

The adjustment

The second shock the great panic

We're going down

Just another commodity

The good sweating how low can it go.

Founders

Global struggle

War and strategy

Hydrocarbon age

Battle for world mastery.