Audiobooks Like Ace of Spades

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Jeanette Illidge voices Ace of Spades with a coiled, precise intensity — she keeps the dread close to the surface across 14 hours without letting it boil over, which is exactly the right register for a story about institutional rot and the quiet accumulation of harm. All ten recommendations match that runtime and carry high ratings, several of them award-winning thrillers, drawn together by that same slow-building sense of a system designed to wound.

10 audiobooks for fans of Ace of Spades

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    Savage Son

    Terminal List • Book 3

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.88 ABR Score (65.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (36.5K) ★ 4.87 Audible (28.8K)
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    Ray Porter transforms Carr's revenge thriller into pure adrenaline. His ability to shift between Reece's measured lethality and the chaos around him makes this the best entry in the series yet.

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    In the Blood

    Terminal List • Book 5

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.87 ABR Score (52.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.49 Goodreads (27.6K) ★ 4.87 Audible (24.8K)
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    Ray Porter's relentless delivery transforms Carr's geopolitical thriller into something almost unbearably gripping—his voice makes Reece's obsession feel like your own.

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    The Devil's Hand

    Terminal List • Book 4

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.83 ABR Score (53.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (31.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (22.1K)
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    Ray Porter's gravelly delivery transforms Carr's geopolitical thriller into something almost hypnotic—he makes every tactical detail and moral compromise feel inevitable, turning a sprawling post-9/11 reckoning into pure momentum.

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    Only the Dead

    Terminal List • Book 6

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.82 ABR Score (32.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.54 Goodreads (24.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (8.6K)
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    Ray Porter's intense delivery matches James Reece uncovering a conspiracy that reaches from a 1980 congressman's murder to current global threats.

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    Red Sky Mourning

    Terminal List • Book 7

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.79 ABR Score (30.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (20.4K) ★ 4.84 Audible (9.8K)
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    Porter's commanding delivery intensifies the tension as James Reece confronts a rogue Chinese submarine and a tech mogul's quantum computing revolution.

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    True Believer

    Terminal List • Book 2

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.78 ABR Score (76.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (43.6K) ★ 4.8 Audible (32.9K)
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    Former Navy SEAL James Reece hunts terrorists across multiple continents after coordinated holiday attacks crash global markets, with detailed military action throughout.

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    Hellbent

    Orphan X • Book 3

    by Gregg Hurwitz

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.73 ABR Score (38.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (25.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (12.8K)
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    The Nowhere Man faces his past when his surrogate father Jack Johns is targeted for knowing too much about the secret Orphan X assassination program.

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    Into the Fire

    An Orphan X Novel • Book 5

    by Gregg Hurwitz

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.73 ABR Score (28.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (19.1K) ★ 4.79 Audible (9.4K)
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    Scott Brick's relentless intensity transforms this fifth Orphan X into pure propulsive momentum—his voice becomes the weapon, making every tense standoff and moral reckoning land with genuine weight.

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    Imitation in Death

    In Death • Book 17

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.71 ABR Score (37.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (32.8K) ★ 4.82 Audible (4.7K)
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    A killer studies history's most notorious serial murderers and recreates their crimes in 2059 New York, personally challenging Lieutenant Eve Dallas to a deadly game of identification.

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    Out of the Dark

    An Orphan X Novel • Book 4

    by Gregg Hurwitz

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.71 ABR Score (31.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (21.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (10.2K)
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    Scott Brick's measured intensity perfectly captures Evan Smoak's lethal precision—making this fourth Orphan X installment feel like a masterclass in smart thriller narration that never oversells the danger.

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