Thriller

Audiobook: Savage Son by Jack Carr

November 7, 2025

I’m continuing my Audiobook “tour” through the Terminal list series. By now I’m hooked 🙂 If you haven’t read the first one in the series, you should start with my initial Review. Each book is building on the the prior one and you need to read them in order. This is not one where you can simply pick up a book in the middle. You could technically, but it comes with missing out on the characters and why we are where we are.

Audiobook: The Terminal List by Jack Carr

Synopsis

In this third high-octane thriller in the “seriously good” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Past Tense) Terminal List series, former Navy SEAL James Reece must infiltrate the Russian mafia and turn the hunters into the hunted.

Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets—a man intent on killing her.

A traitorous CIA officer has found refuge with the Russian mafia with designs on ensuring a certain former Navy SEAL sniper is put in the ground.

Half a world away, James Reece is recovering from brain surgery in the Montana wilderness, slowly putting his life back together with the help of investigative journalist Katie Buranek and his longtime friend and SEAL teammate Raife Hastings. Unbeknownst to them, the Russian mafia has set their sights on Reece in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

In his most visceral and heart-pounding thriller yet, Jack Carr explores the darkest instincts of humanity through the eyes of a man who has seen both the best and the worst of it.

Review

Each time I’m listening to another Audiobook for the series, I’ll know that Ray Porter is my favourite Narrator. I don’t think anyone will ever come close 🙂

Obviously, we cannot have Reese enjoying more than a few month at home with his friends. Someone has a *grudge* and wants to kill him (nothing new here 🙂 ). To do that they are willing to take the person out, that might have something to say about that and would potentially come after him.

When the attack goes wrong, the hunter becomes the hunted. Combine that with the usual military actions, loyalty, corruption, and you get another very entertaining story. I’m always fascinated how well Jack Carr describes the characters and situations there are in. That man knows what he’s doing and I’m here for it.

In the beginning it is mentioned that Jack Carr had the idea for this topic (hunting) very early on when thinking about writing the series. He decided that it might not be a very good topic for the first one and kept it for a later one. I agree with this. Hunting humans for sport is probably not the best way to introduce us to characters. Compared to the prior two books, I still enjoyed this one a lot, but the main plot wasn’t for me.

🌙 Recension: The Terminal List (Terminal List #3) by Jack Carr
📚 Genre: Thriller
📅 Release Date: 14 April 2020
📖 Verlag: Simon & Schuster Audio
📗 available in various formats
📱 Read as: Audiobook
💸 Bought
🗣️ Language: English
📆 Pages / Lengthening Length: 12h56min
⭐️ 4/5