This is a complete list of all chapters in Synthesis.
Free Sample Chapters (shown in orange):
The Free Chapters are a sample of the five escapees’ adventure story; what happens to them and how the Cubans deal with the issues they present. They also give a flavour of the kind of issues that the polemical chapters deal with, to show the big picture of how the world actually turns
| Chapter 1 | The Impossible Escape |
| Chapter 2 | Missing Numbers |
| Chapter 3 | Sanctuary |
| Chapter 4 | X-Ray the Eagle |
| Chapter 5 | Religious Duties and Ethical dilemmas |
| Chapter 6 | Escape Repercussions |
| Chapter 7 | Priest and the Bishop |
| Chapter 8 | Culture and Crafts |
| Chapter 9 | Asylum |
| Chapter 10 | Constitutional Right to Leisure |
| Chapter 11 | Communist Party offices |
| Chapter 12 | La Casa |
| Chapter 13 | Emergency Exercises |
| Chapter 14 | Lay-man’s Speech |
| Chapter 15 | Free and Incarcerated Again |
| Chapter 16 | Lost in Translation |
| Chapter 17 | Havana Takes Control |
| Chapter 18 | C17’s Hydraulic Lines |
| Chapter 19 | White-Dove |
| Chapter 20 | The Capital |
| Chapter 21 | Protective Custody |
| Chapter 22 | Interviews Commence |
| Chapter 23 | Cuba-US Escape Repercussions |
| Chapter 24 | Caspian Sea Pipeline Map |
| Chapter 25 | Rendition Blues |
| Chapter 26 | US-Cuba Mutual Concerns |
| Chapter 27 | Born to Resist |
| Chapter 28 | Safe-house |
| Chapter 29 | Uncle’s Story |
| Chapter 30 | Secret Negotiations |
| Chapter 31 | Sooner You Confess, Sooner You Can Stay Locked Up |
| Chapter 32 | Victor’s Justice |
| Chapter 33 | Escape Logistics |
| Chapter 34 | Good Guys and Bad Guys |
| Chapter 35 | Question Time – Part One |
| Chapter 36 | Beliefs and Uncertainties |
| Chapter 37 | International Political Developments |
| Chapter 38 | Question time – Part Two |
| Chapter 39 | New World Order |
| Chapter 40 | The Synthesis |
| Chapter 41 | A Polemic of Our Time |
| Chapter 42 | Global Warming Fundamentalists |
| Chapter 43 | Smarter Big Lies |
| Chapter 44 | Habana and E=mc² |
| Chapter 45 | Epilogue |
| Chapter 46 | Taking Stock |
| Chapter 47 | Banksters |
| Chapter 48 | War on Terror Has Failed |
| Chapter 49 | Counter-revolution |
| Chapter 50 | Full Spectrum Dominance |
| Chapter 51 | Baiting the Bear |
| Chapter 52 | Orange Revolution |
| Chapter 53 | Bombs and Bullets or Medical diplomacy? |
| Chapter 54 | War on Dissent |
| Chapter 55 | Rigged-democracy to Multi-Polar World |
| Chapter 56 | The Big Picture |
| Chapter 57 | Regime Change Refugees |
| Chapter 58 | The Three Ts |
| Chapter 59 | Nabucco pipeline – versus Syrian people |
| Chapter 60 | Russian Intervention |
| Chapter 61 | The Gift that Keeps Giving |
| Chapter 62 | Not a War on Terror but Civil Liberties |
| Chapter 63 | Neoliberalism |
| Chapter 64 | End Game – Part One |
| Chapter 65 | End Game – Part Two |
| Chapter 66 | Snap Election |