Where to Start with Blake Banner
- Best entry point → Dead of Night
- What fans keep coming back to → Dying Breath
- Highest rated by listeners → The Einstaat Brief (Harry Bauer Thriller #3)
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Dying Breath
Harry Bauer Thriller • Book 2
by Blake Banner
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.35 ABR Score (6.7K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (6.5K) ★ 4.74 Audible (234)6h 53m listening time • Released 2022Ray Porter's gravelly intensity turns this into a relentless thriller—his narration locks you in Harry Bauer's headspace with the kind of grit that makes a covert ops procedural feel genuinely dangerous.
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The Einstaat Brief
Harry Bauer Thriller • Book 3
by Blake Banner
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.35 ABR Score (5.8K ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (5.6K) ★ 4.79 Audible (195)5h 39m listening time • Released 2022Ray Porter's narration transforms this spy thriller into something genuinely gripping—his voice work captures Harry Bauer's moral fracture as perfectly as the plot's high-stakes paranoia demands.
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Dead of Night
Harry Bauer Thriller • Book 1
by Blake Banner
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.30 ABR Score (10.3K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (10.0K) ★ 4.56 Audible (336)6h 30m listening time • Released 2021Ray Porter's gravelly intensity turns this SAS thriller into something genuinely unputdownable—he nails the flinty detachment of a killer trying to survive civilian life.
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Immortal Hate
Harry Bauer Thriller • Book 5
by Blake Banner
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.25 ABR Score (5.3K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (5.2K) ★ 4.86 Audible (95)5h 14m listening time • Released 2025Ray Porter's narration transforms this Caribbean noir thriller into something genuinely immersive—his voice work on morally fractured characters makes the tension feel personal, not just operational.
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Quantum Kill
Harry Bauer Thriller • Book 4
by Blake Banner
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.23 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.76 Audible (55)7h 17m listening time • Released 2025Ray Porter's deadpan delivery makes Harry Bauer's moral descent feel inevitable and darkly funny—a thriller that works because the narrator never winks at the absurdity.
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