Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Black Hand That Ignited World War I -- Dragutin Dimitrijevic and Gavrilo Princip -- The Balkans -- Zoroaster, Judaism, Christ, and Mohammed -- The Karadjordje and Obrenovic Dynasties -- The Bull and King Alexander Obrenovic -- The Balkan Wars -- The Obsessions of the Young Bosnians -- The Archduke, The Emperor, and the Colonel -- A Prince Waiting in Ambush -- June 28, 1914 - In Reverence for Serbian Assassins of the Past -- Investigating the Assassination -- The Trial of Princip and the Black Hand Conspirators -- The Austrian Ultimatum and Russian Treachery -- The Demise of The Bull -- Unprecedented World Carnage -- Princip, Obilich, and Zerajic - Assassins Passing the Torch -- The IMRO, the IRA, and Dada -- A Karadjordje Assassinated - Vlada the Chauffeur -- 2. The Ace and Queen of World War I Spies -- Agent Sidney Reilly and Courtesan Mata Hari -- Murder in Indonesia -- The Poor Dutch Girl Becomes a Liberated European Star -- War for the Dancer -- Mata Hari the Legend - Revenge on the Courtesan -- Mata Hari and Her Search for the Ace of Spies and Lt. Canaris -- Love and Ladoux -- Mata Hari and The Sisterhood of Spies -- The Trial and Ruin of the Cosmopolitan Spy -- The Mysteries of Mata Hari's Daughter -- Reilly's Rise -- ST-1, ST-25, C, and the Birth of the British Master Spy -- The Bolsheviks and the Capitalists -- The Rise of the Bolsheviks and Lenin's Red Terror -- Reilly, Lenin, and the Lockhart Plot -- Reilly, Savinkov, and the Master of the Spy Book -- Targeting Lenin -- The Trust and The Window -- The Legends and Legacies of the Ace and Queen of Spies -- 3. Tactical Deception - Lawrence of Arabia, The Haversack Trick, and Operation Mincemeat -- Majors Lawrence, Meinertzhagen, and Martin -- Thomas Lawrence, John Hume Ross, and T.E. Shaw -- Lawrence, Feisal, and Auda.

Aqaba and the Legend of Lawrence -- Lawrence's Nature and The Queen of the Desert -- Lawrence, Philby, Reilly, and Saud -- Lawrence's End -- Richard Meinertzhagen and The Haversack Trick -- The Franks Deceit - A Greek Bearing Gifts -- Meinertzhagen and Lawrence -- Deceiving Themselves -- The Balfour Declaration Deception -- A Dead Man Tells Lies - The Man Who Never Was -- Major Martin -- Meinertzhagen and Hitler -- 4. Strikes Against the Axis Powers -- General Jimmy Doolittle and Lt. General Knut Haukelid -- The Atomic Letters and a Japanese Russo Border War -- Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo -- The Tokyo Raid -- Churchill and Roosevelt's Tube Alloys and German Miscalculations -- Leif Tronstad -- Operation Freshman -- Operation Gunnerside and Haukelid's Final Blow -- The Alsos Mission -- Agent Moe Berg - Spy Catcher -- Impact of the Raid on Vemork -- Rescue in Peking -- The Reunion -- Doolittle Retired -- 5. The Dirge of the Black Orchestra -- Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler -- From the Kreisau Circle to the Black Orchestra -- Hitler and Stauffenberg's Ancestry -- Wittgenstein, Hitler, and Early Influences -- Vienna and World War I -- Hitler and the Jewish Prostitute -- Munich and the Beer Hall Putsch - Hitler's Failed Revolt -- The Protocols of Zion - Fiction as a Terror Tool -- Hitler and Henry Ford -- Stauffenberg and the Mystical Poet Stefan George -- The Third Reich's Prophet - The Jewish Clairvoyant -- Nazis, The Occult, and Revisionist Archaeology - Rosenberg, Eckart, and Himmler -- The Balkan Holocaust - Hitler, Stalin, and the Romanian Dictators -- Stauffenberg and Olbricht Set Their Resolve -- SS Commando Otto Skorzeny, a Search for Holy Relics, and Plots of Executive Action -- Wolfsschanze -- The Aftermath -- 6. The Dark Secrets of Nazi Intelligence -- Admiral Canaris and General Reinhard Heydrich.

The Little Admiral and the Fox's Lair -- The Iron Hand's Introduction to the SS -- The Barbarous Fanatic -- Salon Kitty -- Canaris and Operation Schulung -- Kristallnacht and the Jewish Problem -- The Gleiwitz Deception - Attack on Poland -- Wannsee Conference and INTERPOL -- Heydrich's Secret -- The Dachau Spy -- Max the Super Spy -- Sabotaging the Saboteurs -- The Czechs Strike Back -- Nazi Reprisal -- Lidice -- The End of Canaris's Role in the Abwehr -- Canaris and Kim Philby -- Canaris and The Black Orchestra -- The End for Canaris -- 7. The Assassination of JFK -- Lee H. Oswald and David Ferrie -- Lincoln, Ferdinand, and Kennedy -- Oswald's Curious Acquaintances -- Ferrie and the Nefarious -- Sergio Arcacha Smith, Guy Banister, and the Creation of Legends -- Civil Air Patrol -- Jack Martin's Accusations -- The Many Faces of Willie O'Keefe -- Clay Shaw -- General Walker, Nixon, and Colonel Rivera -- Ferrie, Cancer, and Dr. Sherman -- Marcello, Oswald, and Dealey Plaza -- Whispers of Plots -- Ferrie the Suspect -- Shaw, Ferrie, and Oswald -- Right-Wing Foreknowledge? -- Ruby and Ferrie -- Hypnosis and the Assassin of the Sixties -- The French Connections -- Looking Back -- Selected Bibliography.