Table of Contents
Author's Note XI
Cast of Characters XIII
Part I Building a World Gone Mad
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 Eyewitness Accounts of those who Survived 7
Chapter 2 The Mad Mastermind 10
Chapter 3 Everyone in the old World has a show 25
Chapter 4 The History Men 34
Chapter 5 Who Killed the World? 46
Chapter 6 I Live, I Die, I Live Again 56
Chapter 7 Where are you, Max? 68
Chapter 8 Pick up What you can and Run 84
Chapter 9 Witness me 93
Chapter 10 "We were basically defeated" 103
Part II Shoot to Thrill
Chapter 11 Preparing for War 119
Chapter 12 Oh, What a Lovely Day 126
Chapter 13 My Name is Max 137
Chapter 14 "It was all in George's Head" 148
Chapter 15 Figuring out Furiosa 153
Chapter 16 Out Here, Everything Hurts 163
Chapter 17 All Hail the Immortan 171
Chapter 18 "The Last Great Action Film" 179
Chapter 19 The War Party 191
Chapter 20 Shiny and Chrome 200
Chapter 21 We are not Things 208
Chapter 22 The Many Mothers 216
Chapter 23 "Dudes were coming in through the Roof" 223
Chapter 24 Fire and Blood 230
Chapter 25 Some Furious Vexation 241
Chapter 26 "Spent and Enriched" 251
Part III End of the Road
Chapter 27 If You Can't Fix What's Broken 261
Chapter 28 "That's Not a Mad Max Ending" 272
Chapter 29 The Final Battle 278
Chapter 30 What was Lost 292
Chapter 31 Some Kind of Redemption 298
Chapter 32 Awaited in Valhalla 309
Chapter 33 "Nothing Good Comes Easy" 323
Acknowledgments 337
Sources 341
Index 350