Part One: Putin I The Lionheart

Chapter 1: In Which Kremlin Strategist Alexander Voloshin Learns to Tolerate Lenin

Chapter 2: In Which Political Émigré Boris Berezovsky Is Not Invited to the Royal Wedding

Chapter 3: In Which Russia's Richest Man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Loses His Business and Freedom Disappears

Part Two: Putin II The Magnificent

Chapter 4: In Which Kremlin Chief of Staff Dmitry Medvedev Creates a New Russian Class

Chapter 5: In Which Ukrainian Presidential Chief of Staff Viktor Medvedchuk Is the Last Ukranian to Enjoy Putin's Trust

Chapter 6: In Which Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov Defends the Besieged Kremlin

Chapter 7: In Which Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov Comes Up with a Plan to Make Russia an Empire Once More

Chapter 8: In Which Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov Is Convinced That He Is the Heir to the Throne

Part Three: Prince Dmitry

Chapter 9: In Which Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Retains Power

and Something Far More Valuable

Chapter 10: In Which Barack Obama Becomes the Kremlin's Best Friend and Worst Enemy

Chapter 11: In Which Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin Turns into a Russian Che Guevara

Chapter 12: In Which Russian Princess Tatyana Yumasheva Comes Up with a New Democratic Party

Chapter 13: In Which Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Thinks He Can Lead the People to the Kremlin

Part Four: Putin The Terrible

Chapter 14: In Which Patriarch Kirill Gives Fatherly Advice to Russia's Cabinet of Ministers

Chapter 15: In Which Kremlin Strategist Vyacheslav Volodin Invents a New National Idea

Chapter 16: In Which Putin's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov Realizes the Futility of Trying to Please the West

Chapter 17: In Which Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu Takes Revenge for Afghanistan and Nicholas I

Chapter 18: In Which Alexei Kudrin Loses the Battle for the President's Heart and Mind

Chapter 19: In Which Ramzan Kadyrov Takes a Round Trip to Dubai

Chapter 20: In Which Bashar al-Assad Becomes the Mirror Image of Putin

Conclusion: Putin the Saint.