'Smith has the advantage of access to insiders and an excellent grasp of intelligence and how it functions.' Sheila Kerr, Defence Analysis

With acclaimed books such as the no. 1 bestseller Station X and Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews, Michael Smith is firmly established as one of Britain's leading authorities on the murky but compelling world of espionage.

In The Spying Game - a completely revised and updated version of New Cloak, Old Dagger, described by Christopher Andrew as 'The best up-to-date survey of British intelligence' - he traces the history of British spying from the creation of the modern Secret Service at the beginning of the twentieth century to the secret M16 role in the defeats of both the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. Smith reveals what Britain's spies actually said about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and sets out what the Hutton inquiry should have said.

'Up to date and well researched' The Observer

'Absorbing from start to finish' Eye Spy

'Michael Smith writes well: coolly and unexaggeratedly, sensibly and authoritatively' The Daily Telegraph