Audiobooks Like The Winner

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Francis Cassidy narrates The Winner with a controlled tension that keeps the con-and-chase mechanics taut across 16 hours — his voice doesn't telegraph the plot pivots, which matters in a thriller built on the gap between what the protagonist knows and what the listener suspects. All ten recommendations are other Baldacci novels, seven run a comparable length, and they share the same high-stakes Baldacci template of ordinary people pulled into extraordinary criminal machinery.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Winner

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Simple Genius

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell • Book 3

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.29 ABR Score (54.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (49.3K) ★ 4.41 Audible (5.3K)
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    Scott Brick's steady performance anchors this dual mystery as Sean probes a physicist's death while Michelle battles personal demons in psychiatric treatment, both cases involving government secrets.

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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 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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