Introduction: invisible allies
Part 1. First phages
1. Something in the water
2. A microbe of a microbe
3. The great phase feud
Part 2. Forgotten phages
4. Stalin's medicine
5. Phages versus the Nazis
6. Parallel universes
Part 3. Phage fever
7. Coming in from the cold
8. Keeping the faith
9. Phages to the rescue
10. Desperation grows
11. The third age of phage?
Part 4. Fundamental phages
12. Atoms of biology
13. Planet phage
14. An ancient technology
15. Find your own phage
Part 5. Future phages
16. Phage therapy 2.0
17. The grey goo
Epilogue: a new view of life
A field guide to phages.