Paul Torday’s satiric epistolary novel, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, includes (un)intended critiques of globalization, as Peter Maxwell, Director of Communications Prime Minister’s Office, conjoins diffusionism, westernization and market liberalization with vertical coercion and pacification strategies to realize his political aims with the Yemen Salmon Project. Maxwell’s imperialist vision is posited against a Yemeni Sheik’s vision of the project’s hierarchy-leveling and peace-bringing effects on Yemen and then the globe. The project has negative consequences for environmental work, many of the human characters and the outsourced salmon. Nature ends the project and signals the end of both human-human and human-non-human imperialisms.