Michael Dobbs Books in Order

Chief Whip Francis Urquhart is passed over for promotion and decides to bring down his own Prime Minister. As he leaks secrets, manipulates colleagues and courts a young reporter, his campaign for power turns darker with every calculated step.

On the eve of the Berlin Wall’s collapse, young CIA officer Harry Benjamin arrives in a city boiling with protest and intrigue. Drawn into a reckless love affair and a covert plot, he must decide who to trust as rival powers circle.

In spring 1945, German prisoner of war Peter Hencke escapes an Allied camp carrying a secret that could shape Europe’s future. His journey from Britain back through ruined Germany becomes a desperate race, hunted by men who would rather see him dead.

Now Prime Minister, Francis Urquhart faces a new adversary, an idealistic king who publicly questions his government. As their feud spills from palace corridors to the front pages, Urquhart is prepared to use scandal, public opinion and worse to keep his grip on power.

Television journalist Isadora Dean refuses to believe her baby died in a car crash and starts searching for the truth. Her obsession uncovers a brutal trade in stolen infants and points toward ambitious politician Paul Deveraux, who will do anything to silence her.

After years as Prime Minister, Francis Urquhart is desperate to outlast his predecessors and leave a grand legacy. While he brokers a risky peace deal over Cyprus and buries secrets from his past, rivals inside his own party begin to scent blood.

Tom Goodfellowe is a crumpled backbench MP with a wrecked personal life and little influence. Asked to help a frightened young Chinese woman in London’s Chinatown, he collides with the Prime Minister, the police and a ruthless newspaper baron determined to destroy him.

When the Dalai Lama dies in a terrorist attack, signs suggest his reincarnation has been born in Britain. Tom Goodfellowe is pulled into a dangerous search that runs from Tibetan monasteries to London’s Chinatown, while shadowy forces inside government try to control the outcome.

A band of embittered soldiers, led by Colonel Peter Amadeus, decides the government has betrayed them and takes London hostage. As the capital’s lifelines are cut, Tom Goodfellowe must choose between personal ambition and confronting an old friend who is prepared to go too far.

Beginning with the Munich Agreement, Winston's War follows Winston Churchill as he battles Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy and fights to be heard. From smoky committee rooms to backbench conspiracies, the novel tracks his slow return from political exile to national leadership.

Set during May 1940, Never Surrender covers Churchill’s first weeks as Prime Minister as France collapses and British troops crowd the beaches at Dunkirk. Inside the War Cabinet, he must face colleagues who still want a deal with Hitler while preparing the country to fight on.

In Churchill’s Hour, the war has dragged into 1941 and Britain is exhausted. Churchill wrestles with bombing raids, strained alliances and a painful family scandal while trying to pull the United States closer, knowing that without American help the struggle cannot be sustained.

Churchill’s Triumph focuses on the Yalta Conference, where Churchill joins Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin to decide Europe’s post war map. As promises collide with realpolitik, he fights to protect Poland and Britain’s influence, even while knowing that the balance of power is shifting.

Virginia Edge, known as Ginny, is a dutiful political wife whose world collapses when she discovers her husband’s affair. Instead of quietly enduring, she learns how Westminster really works and slowly turns herself into a player in the power game.

During the State Opening of Parliament, heavily armed terrorists seize the House of Lords, taking the Queen, the Cabinet and foreign guests hostage. As the world watches live, MP Harry Jones finds himself trapped inside, forced to uncover the attackers’ real motives before time runs out.

One Minute to Midnight reconstructs the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis hour by hour. Drawing on newly opened archives and eyewitness accounts, Dobbs shows how misunderstandings, routine patrols and human error repeatedly pushed the United States and the Soviet Union to the edge of nuclear war.

When a Russian nuclear plant goes into meltdown and the eastern seaboard of the United States is plunged into darkness, it looks like the start of a devastating cyber war. With world leaders isolated in a Scottish castle, Harry Jones must untangle who is attacking and why.

Harry Jones muscles his way onto a parliamentary trip to the remote republic of Ta’argistan to rescue an old friend imprisoned there. When the jailbreak goes wrong and Harry ends up behind bars himself, he discovers a wider conspiracy that reaches far beyond the prison walls.

In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is abducted. The boy turns out to be the son of a powerful Irish media owner, whose desperate ex lover asks Harry Jones for help, pulling him into a kidnap case tangled with old grudges.

When a missile destroys a passenger jet over London, killing dozens of children, panic spreads across Europe. As nations trade accusations, Harry Jones uncovers a plot linking Russian interests, Middle Eastern radicals and a driven British politician who is ready to gamble the continent’s future.

Five quiet words about his father shatter Harry Jones’s carefully controlled life. Chasing half remembered stories from Bermuda to Greece and back to Oxford, he digs into Johnnie Jones’s past and unearths a trail of betrayal that others are still willing to kill to keep buried.

King Richard charts one hundred tense days in 1973 as the Watergate scandal closes in on President Richard Nixon. Using newly released recordings and documents, Dobbs follows the President and his inner circle as loyalty frays, paranoia deepens and a once dominant politician unravels.