10 audiobooks for fans of The Hunt for Red October
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Dark Horse
Orphan X • Book 7
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.59 ABR Score (21.5K ratings)★ 4.37 Goodreads (16.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (4.6K)15h 7m listening time • Released 2022Scott Brick's measured intensity perfectly captures Evan Smoak's controlled precision in this seventh installment—a thriller that rewards longtime fans while delivering genuine stakes and moral complexity.
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The Firm
Mitch McDeere • Book 1
by John Grisham
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.54 ABR Score (644.8K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (639.0K) ★ 4.63 Audible (5.8K)17h 10m listening time • Released 2009Grisham's breakthrough thriller about a young lawyer who discovers his dream firm has lethal secrets — the legal thriller at its most propulsive.
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Absolute Power
by David Baldacci
Narrated by David Baldacci, Scott Brick
★ 4.47 ABR Score (121.4K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (114.8K) ★ 4.5 Audible (6.6K)19h 1m listening time • Released 2010Dual narration by Baldacci and Brick keeps this political thriller razor-sharp—two distinct voices that make the cat-and-mouse game between a burglar and the most powerful men in America feel genuinely threatening.
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Still Life With Crows
Pendergast • Book 4
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.46 ABR Score (47.7K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (42.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (5.6K)15h 55m listening time • Released 2011Scott Brick's menacing drawl transforms this Kansas noir into something genuinely unsettling—he makes every cornfield feel like a trap and every suspect feel plausible.
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The Book of the Dead
Pendergast • Book 7
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.45 ABR Score (45.1K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (39.8K) ★ 4.55 Audible (5.3K)15h 9m listening time • Released 2006Scott Brick's measured, ice-cold delivery turns Pendergast's imprisonment into psychological torture—you feel the cage closing in while ancient curses circle New York above.
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Blood Lines
Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor • Book 2
by Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.39 ABR Score (15.0K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (13.9K) ★ 4.55 Audible (1.1K)19h 32m listening time • Released 2023Scott Brick's measured intensity perfectly anchors this father-son spy thriller—his voice alone justifies the 19-hour commitment to watching Brodie and Taylor hunt a killer through Berlin's underworld.
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Plum Island
John Corey • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.34 ABR Score (69.3K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (59.8K) ★ 4.39 Audible (9.5K)19h 43m listening time • Released 2010Scott Brick's crisp narration perfectly captures DeMille's blend of procedural smarts and dark comedy—a Long Island murder mystery that spirals into bioweapon paranoia without losing its wry edge.
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The Bourne Identity
Jason Bourne Series • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.11 ABR Score (442.2K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (442.1K) ★ 4.1 Audible (150)22h 19m listening time • Released 2012Ludlum's espionage classic is the gold standard of the amnesiac-spy thriller — relentless action, global intrigue, and a hero piecing his own identity back together.
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The Alexandria Link
Cotton Malone • Book 2
by Steve Berry
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.10 ABR Score (46.3K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (44.0K) ★ 4.22 Audible (2.3K)17h 20m listening time • Released 2007Scott Brick elevates this globe-trotting thriller with a performance that makes the historical intrigue feel genuinely urgent. Berry's puzzle-box plotting about lost antiquities snaps into place perfectly at audiobook speed.
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Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance
A Jack Ryan Novel (chronological order) • Book 17
by Mark Greaney
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.72 ABR Score (8.9K ratings)★ 4.72 Audible (8.9K)19h 37m listening time • Released 2016
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