Audiobooks Like The Hunt for Red October

Scott Brick narrates The Hunt for Red October with the technical precision and sustained tension the material requires — nineteen hours of submarine procedure and Cold War espionage, and his voice makes the mechanical and the political feel equally urgent, which is the only way a novel this detailed about hardware can also work as a character study. He appears across all ten titles here, an unbroken narrator thread for listeners who want that same quality of controlled, authoritative delivery in long-form thrillers.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Hunt for Red October

  1. 1
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    Dark Horse

    Orphan X • Book 7

    by Gregg Hurwitz

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.59 ABR Score (21.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (16.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (4.6K)
    15h 7m listening time • Released 2022

    Scott Brick's measured intensity perfectly captures Evan Smoak's controlled precision in this seventh installment—a thriller that rewards longtime fans while delivering genuine stakes and moral complexity.

  2. 2
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    The Firm

    Mitch McDeere • Book 1

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.54 ABR Score (644.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (639.0K) ★ 4.63 Audible (5.8K)
    17h 10m listening time • Released 2009

    Grisham's breakthrough thriller about a young lawyer who discovers his dream firm has lethal secrets — the legal thriller at its most propulsive.

  3. 3
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    Absolute Power

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by David Baldacci, Scott Brick

    4.47 ABR Score (121.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (114.8K) ★ 4.5 Audible (6.6K)
    19h 1m listening time • Released 2010

    Dual narration by Baldacci and Brick keeps this political thriller razor-sharp—two distinct voices that make the cat-and-mouse game between a burglar and the most powerful men in America feel genuinely threatening.

  4. 4
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    Still Life With Crows

    Pendergast • Book 4

    by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.46 ABR Score (47.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (42.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (5.6K)
    15h 55m listening time • Released 2011

    Scott Brick's menacing drawl transforms this Kansas noir into something genuinely unsettling—he makes every cornfield feel like a trap and every suspect feel plausible.

  5. 5
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    The Book of the Dead

    Pendergast • Book 7

    by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.45 ABR Score (45.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (39.8K) ★ 4.55 Audible (5.3K)
    15h 9m listening time • Released 2006

    Scott Brick's measured, ice-cold delivery turns Pendergast's imprisonment into psychological torture—you feel the cage closing in while ancient curses circle New York above.

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    Blood Lines

    Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor • Book 2

    by Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.39 ABR Score (15.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (13.9K) ★ 4.55 Audible (1.1K)
    19h 32m listening time • Released 2023

    Scott Brick's measured intensity perfectly anchors this father-son spy thriller—his voice alone justifies the 19-hour commitment to watching Brodie and Taylor hunt a killer through Berlin's underworld.

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    Plum Island

    John Corey • Book 1

    by Nelson DeMille

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.34 ABR Score (69.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (59.8K) ★ 4.39 Audible (9.5K)
    19h 43m listening time • Released 2010

    Scott Brick's crisp narration perfectly captures DeMille's blend of procedural smarts and dark comedy—a Long Island murder mystery that spirals into bioweapon paranoia without losing its wry edge.

  8. 8
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    The Bourne Identity

    Jason Bourne Series • Book 1

    by Robert Ludlum

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.11 ABR Score (442.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (442.1K) ★ 4.1 Audible (150)
    22h 19m listening time • Released 2012

    Ludlum's espionage classic is the gold standard of the amnesiac-spy thriller — relentless action, global intrigue, and a hero piecing his own identity back together.

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    The Alexandria Link

    Cotton Malone • Book 2

    by Steve Berry

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.10 ABR Score (46.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (44.0K) ★ 4.22 Audible (2.3K)
    17h 20m listening time • Released 2007

    Scott Brick elevates this globe-trotting thriller with a performance that makes the historical intrigue feel genuinely urgent. Berry's puzzle-box plotting about lost antiquities snaps into place perfectly at audiobook speed.

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    Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance

    A Jack Ryan Novel (chronological order) • Book 17

    by Mark Greaney

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.72 ABR Score (8.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.72 Audible (8.9K)
    19h 37m listening time • Released 2016

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