Audiobooks Like The Target

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Ron McLarty narrates The Target alongside Orlagh Cassidy across 13 hours with the functional authority the Camel Club series requires — McLarty's spy-thriller delivery is efficient and unadorned, treating the assassin plot as straight action without reaching for texture it doesn't need. The dual-narrator format gives the parallel storylines clean separation. Five of the recommendations also feature McLarty, every single title comes from Baldacci's catalog, and all ten match the runtime — this list is essentially a complete guide to the Baldacci world in McLarty's voice.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Target

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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 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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    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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    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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    Hour Game

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.35 ABR Score (62.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (56.1K) ★ 4.45 Audible (6.8K)
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    A serial killer copies history's most notorious murderers, and Brick's steady pacing builds dread as ex-Secret Service agents King and Maxwell hunt through familiar yet twisted crime patterns.

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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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