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Jurassic Park
  • Jurassic Park

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Michael Crichton
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 121
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 109
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 109

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Better than the movie!

  • By Akul on 03-06-21

Written by: Michael Crichton

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The Pelican Brief
  • The Pelican Brief

  • Written by: John Grisham
  • Narrated by: Alexander Adams
  • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 8

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated.

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Better than the movie!

  • By Rema Chhakchhuak on 09-01-25

Written by: John Grisham

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Force Ten from Navarone
  • Force Ten from Navarone

  • Written by: Alistair MacLean
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
  • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to fulfil a secret mission....

Written by: Alistair MacLean

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Radiant Angel
  • Radiant Angel

  • Written by: Nelson DeMille
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City....

Written by: Nelson DeMille

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Biggles Flies North
  • Biggles Flies North

  • Written by: W. E. Johns
  • Narrated by: Michael Palin
  • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
  • Original Recording
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When Biggles receives a letter from an old wartime chum asking for help, he responds at once....

Written by: W. E. Johns

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Wyatt's Hurricane
  • Wyatt's Hurricane

  • Written by: Desmond Bagley
  • Narrated by: Paul Tyreman
  • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean....

Written by: Desmond Bagley

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Jurassic Park
  • Jurassic Park

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Michael Crichton
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 121
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 109
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 109

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Better than the movie!

  • By Akul on 03-06-21

Written by: Michael Crichton

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The Pelican Brief
  • The Pelican Brief

  • Written by: John Grisham
  • Narrated by: Alexander Adams
  • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 8

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated.

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Better than the movie!

  • By Rema Chhakchhuak on 09-01-25

Written by: John Grisham

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Force Ten from Navarone
  • Force Ten from Navarone

  • Written by: Alistair MacLean
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
  • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, the three Navarone heroes are parachuted into war-torn Yugoslavia to fulfil a secret mission....

Written by: Alistair MacLean

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Radiant Angel
  • Radiant Angel

  • Written by: Nelson DeMille
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0

After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City....

Written by: Nelson DeMille

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Biggles Flies North
  • Biggles Flies North

  • Written by: W. E. Johns
  • Narrated by: Michael Palin
  • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
  • Original Recording
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0

When Biggles receives a letter from an old wartime chum asking for help, he responds at once....

Written by: W. E. Johns

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Wyatt's Hurricane
  • Wyatt's Hurricane

  • Written by: Desmond Bagley
  • Narrated by: Paul Tyreman
  • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean....

Written by: Desmond Bagley

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Assassin's Run
  • Assassin's Run

  • David Slaton, Book 5
  • Written by: Ward Larsen
  • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
  • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Assassin David Slaton clashes with the Russians in this action-packed espionage thriller from USA Today best-selling author Ward Larsen....

Written by: Ward Larsen

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Endangered Species
  • Endangered Species

  • Anna Pigeon
  • Written by: Nevada Barr
  • Narrated by: Cindy Williams
  • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
  • Abridged
  • Overall
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Anna has been assigned a three-week posting on Georgia's isolated Cumberland Island. Despite the breathtaking natural setting, Anna finds time weighing as she works tedious fire pre-suppression duty. Her boring routine is shattered when a sudden plane crash calls the crew to action....

Written by: Nevada Barr

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Line of Control
  • Line of Control

  • Tom Clancy's Op-Center #8
  • Written by: Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Jeff Rovin
  • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
  • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 1
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars 1
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 1

It's a mission that only Striker - the military arm of Op-Center - can handle: capture an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian government....

Written by: Tom Clancy,

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Death to America
  • Death to America

  • The Dylan Kane Thrillers, Book 4
  • Written by: J. Robert Kennedy
  • Narrated by: Adam Barr
  • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 1
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 1
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars 1

WHO DO YOU TRUST WHEN YOUR COUNTRY TURNS AGAINST ITSELF?

Written by: J. Robert Kennedy

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Without Sanction
  • Without Sanction

  • A Matt Drake Novel, Book 1
  • Written by: Don Bentley
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0
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After surviving a clandestine operation that went tragically wrong, Matt Drake escaped Syria with his life, but little else. Now, to save the life of another, he must return to Syria and confront his biggest failure in a stunning thriller.

Written by: Don Bentley

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Locked On
  • Locked On

  • A Jack Ryan Novel
  • Written by: Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
  • Narrated by: Lou Diamond Phillips
  • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8

Jack Ryan Jr.--along with the covert warriors of the Campus--continues to uphold his legendary father’s legacy of courage and honor in this thriller from number one New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy....

Written by: Tom Clancy,

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Congo
  • Congo

  • Written by: Michael Crichton
  • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
  • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 21
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 18
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 18

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Loved the Book But the Movie Added More!

  • By Anonymous User on 09-08-24

Written by: Michael Crichton

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The Great Train Robbery
  • The Great Train Robbery

  • Written by: Michael Crichton
  • Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
  • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 14
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 13
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 13

In teeming Victorian London, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century....

  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Nice read, not among the Crichton’s top works but great nonetheless

  • By Aditi vaidya on 16-11-24

Written by: Michael Crichton

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Kill Decision
  • Kill Decision

  • Written by: Daniel Suarez
  • Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
  • Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 3
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 1
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 1

Unmanned weaponized drones already exist....

Written by: Daniel Suarez

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Rogue
  • Rogue

  • An American Ghost Thriller, Book 1
  • Written by: J. B. Turner
  • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
  • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Nathan Stone was killed in action while serving as a covert CIA operative. Or so everyone thought. In reality he’s become a ghost, a black-ops asset with a new identity and controlled by a secret government organization....

Written by: J. B. Turner

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The Sunbird
  • The Sunbird

  • Written by: Wilbur Smith
  • Narrated by: Piers Hampton
  • Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 3
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 2
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 2

A lost civilisation. A curse reborn. Dr Ben Kazin has only a blurred photograph and a gut instinct that there is a lost city to uncover somewhere beneath the Botswana cliffs....

Written by: Wilbur Smith

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Assassin's Code
  • Assassin's Code

  • A David Slayton Novel
  • Written by: Ward Larsen
  • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
  • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Former assassin David Slaton discovers a cryptic message: on a memory stick, a photograph of the man who will soon assume command of DGSI....

Written by: Ward Larsen

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Where Eagles Dare
  • Where Eagles Dare

  • Written by: Alistair MacLean
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
  • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 9
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 7

One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany....

  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • Must listen

  • By Ashutosh Sonar on 11-10-23

Written by: Alistair MacLean

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Eaters of the Dead
  • Eaters of the Dead

  • Written by: Michael Crichton
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 6
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 5
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 5

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • writing style

  • By hemant angarkar on 10-05-24

Written by: Michael Crichton

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Back Blast
  • Back Blast

  • A Gray Man Novel
  • Written by: Mark Greaney
  • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
  • Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 30
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 27
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 27

Court Gentry was the CIA's best agent. Until the day the agency turned against him and put out a kill-on-sight order....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Engaging

  • By Ashutosh on 05-03-24

Written by: Mark Greaney

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Congo Nightfall
  • Congo Nightfall

  • Shadow Strike, Book 8
  • Written by: Jason Kasper
  • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
  • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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When elite CIA operative David Rivers and his paramilitary team are dispatched to the heart of Africa, their mission is clear: eliminate the notorious terrorist warlord, Chijioke Mubenga, before he can unleash chaos upon the world. But fate has other plans.

Written by: Jason Kasper

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Full Force and Effect
  • Full Force and Effect

  • A Jack Ryan Novel
  • Written by: Mark Greaney
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 6
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 6
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 6

North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing....

Written by: Mark Greaney

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Dead Zero
  • Dead Zero

  • Bob Lee Swagger, Book 7
  • Written by: Stephen Hunter
  • Narrated by: Buck Schirner
  • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars 1
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars 1
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars 1

A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear....

Written by: Stephen Hunter

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War Shadows
  • War Shadows

  • Tier One Thrillers, Book 2
  • Written by: Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson
  • Narrated by: Ray Porter
  • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 5
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 5
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 5

John Dempsey, former Navy SEAL and Tier One operator, is back. Only a few months into his new life as an operative for Ember, the United States’ most covert counterterrorism entity, he must stop an old nemesis who’s resurfaced after ten years of operating in the shadows....

Written by: Brian Andrews,

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Carrion Comfort
  • Carrion Comfort

  • Written by: Dan Simmons
  • Narrated by: Mel Foster, Laural Merlington
  • Length: 39 hrs and 27 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 10
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8
  • Story
    4.5 out of 5 stars 8

Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • awesome scary tale of mind vampires

  • By sriram kb on 14-09-19

Written by: Dan Simmons

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The Guns of Navarone
  • The Guns of Navarone

  • Written by: Alistair MacLean
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
  • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars 4
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars 4
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars 4

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense....

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • quality

  • By Belur Vijayakumar on 01-02-21

Written by: Alistair MacLean

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The Tightrope Men
  • The Tightrope Men

  • Written by: Desmond Bagley
  • Narrated by: Paul Tyreman
  • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
  • Unabridged
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When Giles Denison of Hampstead wakes up in an Oslo hotel room and finds the face looking back at him in the mirror is not his own, things could surely get no more bizarre....

Written by: Desmond Bagley

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The English Spy
  • The English Spy

  • Written by: Daniel Silva
  • Narrated by: George Guidall
  • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    0 out of 5 stars 0
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Following the success of his smash hit The Heist, Daniel Silva returns with another blockbuster - a powerhouse novel that showcases his outstanding skill....

Written by: Daniel Silva

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Burn to Shine
  • Burn to Shine

  • A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel, Book 4
  • Written by: Jonathan Maberry
  • Narrated by: Ray Porter
  • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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Rogue Team International joins Joe Ledger in a tension-filled new mission to stop a wave of bioterrorism from devastating the country.

Written by: Jonathan Maberry

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