Best Long Cold War Audiobooks

Explore our selection of epic Cold War audiobooks.

Welcome to our curated collection of the best and longest Cold War audiobooks, all 20+ hours in length.

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Epic Audiobooks in this Genre

• Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy (31h 12m)

  Narrated by: Michael Prichard

  31 hours of WWIII. Clancy's tactical masterpiece imagines a conventional war in the 1980s.

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré (12h 8m)

  Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

  12 hours of supreme Cold War tradecraft. George Smiley unmasks a high-level Soviet mole at the heart of the Circus.

• Berlin Game by Len Deighton (10h 29m)

  Narrated by: James Lailey

  10 hours across divided Berlin. A world-weary field agent crosses the Wall to extract a high-ranking Soviet defector.

• The Human Factor by Graham Greene (9h 36m)

  Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

  Over 9 hours of quiet literary suspense. An aging MI6 officer leaks secrets for love rather than communist ideology.

• A Perfect Spy by John le Carré (19h 59m)

  Narrated by: Rory Kinnear

  20 hours into the soul of a double agent. A disappearing British diplomat pens a secret memoir of his life and treason.

• The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré (20h 31m)

  Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale

  20 hours of vintage Cold War espionage. Smiley strikes back against Moscow Centre across Hong Kong and Vietnam.

• Mexico Set: Bernard Samson, Book 2 by Len Deighton (13h 26m)

  Narrated by: James Lailey

  13.5 hours of Cold War tradecraft. Bernard Samson pursues a high-stakes defection from Mexico to East Berlin.

• London Match: Bernard Samson, Book 3 by Len Deighton (14h 46m)

  Narrated by: James Lailey

  Nearly 15 hours of explosive Cold War mole-hunts. Bernard Samson fights to clear his name in the trilogy's climax.