Audiobooks Like The Hit

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The Hit uses dual narration — Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy splitting duties across the book's two hunters — and that structural choice pays off aurally: the swap between voices keeps you from settling too deeply into either perspective just as the noose tightens, which is exactly the kind of discomfort a cat-and-mouse thriller should produce. At twelve hours, it's long enough for the conspiracy to develop weight but short enough that Baldacci never lets the momentum bleed out between action sequences. Every audiobook here is another Baldacci, most land within an hour of that runtime, and five of them hand the mic back to McLarty — so if what you're chasing is that same sense of controlled escalation in a voice you've already calibrated to, you're not going to have to look hard.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Hit

  1. 1
    The Forgotten cover

    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    The Last Mile

    Amos Decker • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Kyf Brewer

    ★ 4.59 ABR Score (127.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (105.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (21.8K)
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    Hours before execution, convicted killer Melvin Mars gets a reprieve when another man confesses to murdering Mars's parents. Baldacci's plot draws parallels between Mars and detective Amos Decker's tragic backgrounds throughout this FBI thriller.

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    The Simple Truth

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Jonathan Marosz

    ★ 4.34 ABR Score (44.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (42.4K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2.2K)
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    Convicted murderer Rufus Harms realizes twenty-five years too late that he's innocent, filing a secret Supreme Court appeal while the real killers hunt him down in this legal thriller.

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    Split Second

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (95.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (83.5K) ★ 4.33 Audible (12.4K)
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    Former Secret Service agent Sean King's moment of inattention led to a candidate's assassination eight years ago. Scott Brick handles Baldacci's procedural thriller with steady pacing as King faces a parallel case.

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