Foreword 9 1. Magic carpet ride 21 2. Wounded guerrilla on board 28 3. Welcome back Mr John. 32 4. Downtown 38 5. Who are the Kurds? 42 6. Hoshayar 46 7. Iskan Street 53 8. Christians in peril 60 9. 'Please help me!' 71 10. Brown envelope anyone? 78 11. Chalabi the Cheshire Cat 87 12. Jalal Talabani 94 13. A matter of 'honour'? 97 14. Shayan 99 15. Those who die first 103 16. Dara 110 17. The long march 114 18. 'The Kurd requires a beating.' 122 19. The Cairo Conference 125 20. Gertrude Bell 128 21. The Kurdish question 132 22. The King of Kurdistan 135 23. The Cairo legacy 141 24. Driving with Mustafa 146 25. Remembering Anfal 153 26. Halabja 157 27. Chemical Ali 163 28. Hypocrisy 165 29. Iran accused 167 30. Inside the clan 170 31. The King's tomb 177 32. Bring me the manager 182 33. Smugglers' paradise 188 34. Komola and Iran's rebellious Kurds 199 35. Khalkhali: the hanging judge 206 36. Four empty graves 208 37. Mahabad 214 38. By the rivers of Babylon 221 39. Betrayal 229 40. The PKK 233 41. The millennials 236 42. They reap what they sow 240 43. Saving the economy 243 44. Not in the news 245 45. Final thoughts 250

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John Cookson is an award-winning journalist who began his career in Fleet Street and then spent 30 years as a senior correspondent at Sky News, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Euronews and African start-up Arise News. He is also a qualified lawyer.

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