A fugitive SEAL pulled back into the fight, a terror plot spanning continents, and the thriller many fans rate as Jack Carr's best — narrated by Ray Porter.
After his brutal campaign of vengeance, James Reece is the most-wanted domestic terrorist alive — and he's gone to ground deep in the wilds of Mozambique, sheltered by the family of a former SEAL teammate. But when a wave of devastating, coordinated terrorist attacks rocks the Western world, the CIA comes looking. They have one asset who can get close to the shadowy former Iraqi commando orchestrating the chaos: Reece. In exchange for a presidential pardon and immunity for the friends who sheltered him, Reece becomes a reluctant tool of the government, traveling the globe to target terrorist leaders and unravel a conspiracy that runs through a traitorous CIA officer and toward a sinister assassination plot. It's a bigger, more international story than The Terminal List — and one Carr's real-world experience makes feel uncomfortably plausible.
True Believer is the more sprawling of the early Reece books, and it gives Ray Porter more to do — a globe's worth of characters, accents, and dialects, from African villages to European capitals to the corridors of Washington. He keeps the enormous cast legible and the relentless pace intact, and his Reece deepens here: still lethal, but more weary, more human, carrying the weight of everything book one cost him. Porter's control is what lets the slower opening build instead of sag, and what makes the back half — when the action ignites across continents — land at full force. Listeners frequently single out his performance as the reason the series is best experienced on audio.
Fans of The Terminal List who want more Reece, lovers of globe-trotting espionage and military action, and anyone who values authentic tradecraft from an author who lived it. A perfect long-haul listen for travel or the commute.
This isn't a starting point — it leans on the events and emotions of The Terminal List. And if you need nonstop action from page one, the deliberate, slower-burning first act asks for a little patience before it pays off.
Listen to it. A bigger, bolder follow-up that many fans rate above the original, with Ray Porter delivering one of his strongest thriller performances. If The Terminal List hooked you, this is non-negotiable.