Ant Middleton Books in Order

Ant Middleton has written 9 books, published between 2018 and 2023. The first book is First Man In (2018) and the newest is Mission: Total Confidence (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
2018–2023
Pages on record
1,328 in 4 of 9 books

Ant Middleton, born in 1980, served as a Royal Engineer in the British Army, as a Royal Marines Commando and in UK Special Forces, then moved into television. From 2015 to 2021 Middleton was chief instructor on the Channel 4 programme SAS: Who Dares Wins, and also took part in the reality shows Mutiny and Escape. Nine books carry the Middleton credit, opening with First Man In (2018) and reaching Mission: Total Confidence (2023), with The Fear Bubble (2020), Zero Negativity (2020), Mental Fitness (2021), Red Mist (2022) and The Wall (2022) among them. Recorded subjects include leadership, psychology, special forces and British military history.

How many Ant Middleton books are there?

Ant Middleton has 9 books, released between 2018 and 2023. 2 of them belong to the Mallory series.

Ant Middleton Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Ant Middleton books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    First Man In2018 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018320
  2. 2
    The Fear Bubble2020 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020352
  3. 3
    Zero Negativity2020 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020336
  4. 4
    Cold JusticeMallory #12021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021
  5. 5
    Mental Fitness2021 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021320
  6. 6
    Red MistMallory #22022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  7. 7
    Mission Total Resilience2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  8. 8
    The Wall2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  9. 9
    Mission: Total Confidence2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023

Ant Middleton books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Mallory in order

2 books
  1. 1. Cold Justice
  2. 2. Red Mist

Standalone books

7 books

7 Ant Middleton titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ant Middleton books in order?

You only need to read Ant Middleton books in order within the Mallory series, which holds 2 of the 9 Ant Middleton books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Ant Middleton

Start with First Man In (2018), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ant Middleton book?

Mission: Total Confidence (2023) is the newest Ant Middleton book released so far.

Is there a new Ant Middleton book coming?

No next Ant Middleton book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Ant Middleton at a glance

Paused
No new Ant Middleton title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Ant Middleton books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
1,328 pages across the 4 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 328 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ant Middleton books, 8 of 9, were published in the 2020s.

What the Ant Middleton books are about

4 of the 9 Ant Middleton books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: psychology is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.