Michael Smith Books in Order
Michael Smith has written 16 books, published between 1994 and 2022. The first book is Odd Man Out: The Story Of The Singapore Traitor (1994) and the newest is The Real Special Relationship (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 16
- Published
- 1994–2022
- Pages on record
- 1,648 in 6 of 16 books
Michael Smith, born in 1952, is a British author who specialises in spies and espionage. Smith is a former military intelligence officer and journalist, and a former board member of the Bletchley Park Trust. Smith obtained and published the documents known as The Downing Street Memos, which recorded a July 2002 British war cabinet meeting. The catalogue lists 16 books from Odd Man Out: The Story Of The Singapore Traitor (1994) to The Real Special Relationship (2022), including Station X (1998) and The Emperor's Codes (2011), plus a Ritter series.
How many Michael Smith books are there?
Michael Smith has 16 books, released between 1994 and 2022. 1 of them belong to the Ritter series.
Michael Smith Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 16 Michael Smith 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.
- 1Odd Man Out: The Story Of The Singapore TraitorMichaelSmith Non-Fiction #11994 · 265 pages · confirmed 1/419942651/4
- 219973381/4
- 31998–1/4
- 41999–1/4
- 52001–1/4
- 6The Spying Game: The Secret History of British EspionageMichaelSmith Non-Fiction #62003 · 502 pages · confirmed 1/420035021/4
- 72006–1/4
- 82010–1/4
- 92011–1/4
- 102011631/4
- 112015–1/4
- 12The Anatomy of a Traitor: A History of Espionage and BetrayalMichaelSmith Non-Fiction #122017 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/420173201/4
- 1320191601/4
- 14The Anatomy of a Spy: A History of Espionage and BetrayalMichaelSmith Non-Fiction #142020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 152022–1/4
- 162022–1/4
Michael Smith 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.
MichaelSmith Non-Fiction
15 books15 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Ritter in order
1 bookDo you have to read Michael Smith books in order?
You only need to read Michael Smith books in order within the Ritter series, which holds 1 of the 16 Michael Smith books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Michael Smith
Start with Odd Man Out: The Story Of The Singapore Traitor (1994), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Michael Smith book?
The Real Special Relationship (2022) is the newest Michael Smith book released so far.
Is there a new Michael Smith book coming?
No next Michael Smith book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Michael Smith at a glance
- Paused
- No new Michael Smith title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Michael Smith books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 1,648 pages across the 6 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 292 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Michael Smith books, 6 of 16, were published in the 2010s.
What the Michael Smith books are about
6 of the 16 Michael Smith books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: espionage is tagged on 3 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Espionage 3 of 6 books
- History 3 of 6 books
- Intelligence service 3 of 6 books
- Espionage, british 2 of 6 books
- Spies 2 of 6 books
- World War, 1939-1945 2 of 6 books