Audiobooks Like Memory Man

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Ron McLarty narrates David Baldacci's detective fiction with a weathered authority that suits a protagonist who carries the weight of an extraordinary memory and an impossible loss — his delivery has the controlled tension of someone who knows when to pull back, and at 13 hours the procedural momentum never lets up. With seven shared narrators and all ten recommendations from Baldacci himself or McLarty's catalog, this list is tightly tuned to the same voice and the same register.

10 audiobooks for fans of Memory Man

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    The Guilty

    Will Robie • Book 4

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy

    4.52 ABR Score (77.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (64.2K) ★ 4.54 Audible (12.9K)
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    Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy alternate as Will Robie returns to his Mississippi hometown to investigate murder charges against the father who shaped his deadly skills.

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    The Escape

    John Puller • Book 3

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    4.51 ABR Score (76.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (62.9K) ★ 4.53 Audible (13.3K)
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    Military investigator John Puller hunts his own brother—a convicted traitor who impossibly escaped the most secure prison in America. The family betrayal cuts deep in Baldacci's most personal thriller yet.

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    The Innocent

    Will Robie • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    4.51 ABR Score (143.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (122.3K) ★ 4.49 Audible (20.9K)
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    Government assassin Will Robie's perfect record shatters when a mission goes sideways, forcing him to protect the very target he was sent to eliminate. Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy handle the shifting perspectives with precision throughout this cat-and-mouse thriller.

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    The Hit

    Will Robie • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    4.50 ABR Score (92.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (79.7K) ★ 4.54 Audible (12.6K)
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    Government assassin Will Robie faces off against Jessica Reel, a fellow killer who's gone rogue, in Baldacci's cat-and-mouse thriller that McLarty and Cassidy handle with professional precision.

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    The Forgotten

    John Puller • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    4.50 ABR Score (81.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (70.2K) ★ 4.56 Audible (11.0K)
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    John Puller's personal case in paradise turns into his deadliest investigation yet, with Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy building tension in every chapter.

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    The Target

    Will Robie • Book 3

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    4.50 ABR Score (80.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (66.0K) ★ 4.53 Audible (14.3K)
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    Presidential assassination orders and impossible missions get the tension they deserve with McLarty and Cassidy alternating perspectives as Will Robie faces his most dangerous assignment yet.

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    The Whole Truth

    A. Shaw • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    4.39 ABR Score (49.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (43.4K) ★ 4.51 Audible (5.8K)
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    Defense contractor Nicolas Creel pays specialists to manufacture international incidents and media campaigns that will create the profitable wars he desperately needs.

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    Hell's Corner

    The Camel Club • Book 5

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    4.38 ABR Score (49.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (44.8K) ★ 4.43 Audible (5.1K)
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    An explosion near the White House draws Oliver Stone into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of American power.

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    True Blue

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    4.20 ABR Score (39.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (35.4K) ★ 4.35 Audible (4.1K)
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    Former cop Mace Perry rebuilds her life after being framed and imprisoned, but a high-profile Washington murder pulls her back into the dangerous intersection of crime and national security.

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    The Camel Club Audio Box Set: The Camel Club / The Collectors / Stone Cold

    The Camel Club #1-3

    by David Baldacci, James Naughton, Tom Wopat, Maggi-Meg Reed, Ron McLarty

    Narrated by James Naughton, Tom Wopat, Maggi-Meg Reed, Ron McLarty

    4.26 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.42 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 4.52 Audible (1.1K)
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    Baldacci's conspiracy-hunting outcasts tackle government corruption across three explosive thrillers. Multiple narrators including James Naughton and Tom Wopat give each character distinct personality in this political powder keg.

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