Audiobooks Like The Escape

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Ron McLarty narrates The Escape with a blue-collar steadiness that fits Baldacci's military thriller world — 15 hours of manhunt and conspiracy, delivered without flash, which keeps the emotional stakes of a brother hunting a brother from tipping into melodrama. Five picks feature McLarty again, and all ten return to Baldacci's catalog, making this a list for listeners already comfortable in that world who want to stay there.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Escape

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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 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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    Memory Man

    Amos Decker • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    4.47 ABR Score (191.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (160.2K) ★ 4.43 Audible (31.2K)
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    A detective with perfect recall investigates his family's murder in this thriller where dual narrators Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy handle shifting perspectives.

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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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    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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    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 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 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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    The Winner

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Francis Cassidy

    4.44 ABR Score (60.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (55.9K) ★ 4.55 Audible (4.7K)
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    LuAnn Tyler's Faustian lottery bargain—$100 million for permanent exile—unfolds through Cassidy's tense narration as past deals return to threaten her daughter's future.

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    Total Control

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Jonathan Marosz

    4.39 ABR Score (55.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (50.0K) ★ 4.47 Audible (5.4K)
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    Sidney Archer's husband dies in a plane crash, but evidence suggests he was never on that flight, plunging her into a conspiracy involving corporate espionage and government secrets. Jonathan Marosz guides listeners through Baldacci's intricate plot of deception and high-stakes intrigue.

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