Putin's oil : the Yukos affair and the struggle for Russia / Martin Sixsmith.

Flight to the east -- Into Siberia -- 'Put down your guns!' -- Boy from the Komsomol -- Gathering the team -- Computers and banks -- August 1991 -- Sale of the century? -- Consolidating the gains -- New man in the Kremlin -- Buying up the Duma? -- Igor Sechin and the 'strongmen' -- Showdown in the Kremlin -- Looking for trouble -- Pipelines and provocation -- Open Russia -- Friends in the west -- The family and the Siloviki -- More arrests -- Yukos and the struggle for Russia -- A Kremlin double-cross? -- Exile or gaol -- Americans in town -- The ExxonMobil gaffe -- A final plea? -- Arrest in Siberia -- Counting the cost -- Trying to stay afloat -- The Abramovich connection -- The Kremlin explains -- Fight or flight -- Khodorkovsky shunned -- 'Just like Al Capone' -- Justice on trial -- The murder business -- The Chechen connection -- Hostages? -- In the camps -- Prophet in a prison cell -- A battle of Titans -- The UK connection -- The British troika -- A Canadian gambit -- The Brits bite back -- Cashing in the profits -- The startled accountants -- Traitors in the ranks? -- Hope -- Hope abandoned -- Light at the end of a disaster?

The story of Russia's energy wars and their consequences, focusing on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of Yukos, which was once the country's biggest oil firm and key to the Russian economy.