Includes Biographical References and Index

Welcome to the Kingdom --
pt. 1. The desert : Bedouin ; Exile ; The great adventure --
pt. 2. The House of Saʼud : No god but God ; Fusillade ; Britons and Turks ; The House of Hashim ; The jewel ; Night caravan ; Captain Shakespear ; Jarrab ; The Arab revolt ; Sir Abdul Aziz bin Sa'ud ; Philby ; Britons and Arabs --
pt. 3. The brethren : Al Artawiya ; Death of the jewel ; A trip to London ; Sultan ; Boundaries in men's hearts ; False start ; At home with Abdul Aziz ; Taif ; Mecca ; Sabillah ; The Kingdom --
pt. 4. Oil : A man and a horse ; Well no. 7 ; The Second World War ; Riches ; The lion dies ; King Sa'ud ; Colonel Nasser's new way ; Enter the Crown Prince ; OPEC ; 'Candidates for liquidation' ; Deposition ; Reform ; Two faces of Faisal ; Challenges ; The Russians and the Jews --
pt. 5. Petropower : Two weeks that changed the world ; Burning concern ; The dreams of King Faisal ; Partnership: Khalid ; Partnership: Fahad ; Riyal politik ; Death of a princess ; Mr. Khashoggi ; $100,000,000,000 ; The Mahdi ; Black gold ; The next Iran? ; As God wills --
Appendixes : A. The ruling line of the House of Saʼud ; B. The sons of Abdul Aziz ; C. Prominent princes ; D. The relatives of Saʼud al Kabeer ; E. The Islamic calendar ; F. World oil and gas statistics ; G. Note on Arabic words.

Follows the line of the Saudi succession from its nineteenth-century origins to the present and chronicles the nation's ruling families' progression to an oil superpower.