Each Takes 48 Hours or Less: 10 Thriller Audiobooks to Finish in a Weekend
Espionage and a hidden past
Agent Zero runs 11 hours and 14 minutes. It follows Kent Steele, a 38-year-old European history professor at Columbia University who lives in New York with his two teenage daughters.
After terrorists abduct him and take him to Paris, they believe he is a deadly CIA operative. Kent has no memory of being a spy and tries to uncover the truth about his past.
A patient and his mystery
The Silent Patient takes eight hours and 43 minutes to hear. Alicia Berenson, once an acclaimed painter, has been in a psychiatric facility for six years after a bloody shootout and cannot recall her husband’s murder.
Psychotherapist Theo Faber hopes to uncover what happened. As Alicia’s diary entries and Theo’s observations diverge, listeners must weigh the accounts and decide whom to trust.
Carrie and unfinished entries
Stephen King’s Carrie lasts seven hours and 19 minutes, with narration by Sissy Spacek, who played the title character in the first film adaptation. Carrie White, sheltered from the world, faces cruel classmates who see her as strange.
Neither Carrie nor her classmates understand the extent of her supernatural powers, which could set an entire town ablaze. The remaining text describes frightening encounters with criminal masterminds and Hannibal Lecter, but does not provide complete audiobook titles or details.
Key points
- Each listed audiobook is said to take no more than 48 hours to complete.
- Agent Zero follows Kent Steele after terrorists abduct him to Paris.
- The Silent Patient centers on Alicia Berenson and psychotherapist Theo Faber.
- Carrie’s audiobook runs seven hours and 19 minutes and is narrated by Sissy Spacek.