Audiobooks by Tim Ayliffe

"A fugitive sister. A dangerous father. A terror cell hiding in plain sight. Kit McCarthy hasn't seen her identical twin sister, Billie, in more than a decade. The sisters don't see eye to eye, which is understandable, considering Kit's a police officer and Billie followed their violent father into a life of crime. Kit is no angel. Burnt out by years working in child protection, she has been accused of using excessive force in the arrest of a violent drunk. Kit has just been ordered to take time off work when she gets a frantic message from Billie, telling her she has a young son and that somebody is trying to kill her. And then Billie disappears. Determined to find her estranged sister, Kit's only lead comes after visiting their father in prison. Malcolm McCarthy claims Billie married a former United States Marine and has been living with a group of sovereign citizens in the desert country of the New South Wales Riverina. Kit's journey to find Billie takes her through shuttered towns destroyed by drought, where everybody owns guns, nobody talks to cops, and people get lost for a reason. Out here a war is brewing between a ruthless bikie gang and a separatist community that is re-engaging with society in the most violent way. Kit will risk everything to find her sister and the nephew she never knew she had. But does Billie really want to be saved? ‘Heart-stopping action, impossible to put down. An absolute cracker. Ayliffe’s best yet.’ CHRIS HAMMER ‘A taut, urgent page-turner … fiction built on a terrifying and confronting reality.’ MICHAEL BRISSENDEN ‘A cracking read! With a terrifically paced plot and a wild cast of characters, it grabs you from the first sentence and doesn’t let go. I gobbled it up in one sitting!’ PATRICIA WOLF ‘In Ayliffe’s broken world, the bad guys look like the good and the good must masquerade as the bad. A gritty, propulsive thriller that hits frighteningly close to home.’ SIANG LU, winner of the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award ‘With unforgettable characters and a simmering plot, Ayliffe takes us on a hell-ride through the forgotten towns of Australia’s Badlands.’ CANDICE FOX ‘A helter-skelter road trip that starts fast and never lets up. Vintage Ayliffe – tense, tight, and strung with issues that confront today’s world.’ MATTHEW SPENCER ‘It feels ripped from the headlines, with the signature insight that is Tim Ayliffe’s calling card. A cracking, politically-savvy thriller from Australia’s master of the art.’ HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, internationally bestselling author of Dirt Town and Girl Falling ‘When ideology and fanaticism collide with buried family secrets, loyalty is tested to its breaking point – a gripping exploration of love, betrayal, and the cost of conviction.’ JACK BEAUMONT, former spy and author of The Frenchman ‘Tim Ayliffe is a writer at the height of his powers – moving, insightful and unforgettable.’ SULARI GENTILL ‘With a veteran journo’s unflinching gaze, Tim Ayliffe delivers a fierce new novel that cuts straight to the heart of our chaotic age… not just a thrilling ride through Australian badlands, it’s a mirror held up to the madness of our modern world, closer to reality than we’d care to admit.’ SAM GUTHRIE, author of The Peak"

Tim Ayliffe (Author), Sonya Kerr (Narrator)

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The Enemy Within

"Investigative journalist John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth so being kicked when he’s down comes with the territory. Having lost the one woman who was always there to pick him up, the former war correspondent is doing his best to turn his life around without her. He has a new job. He’s given up the drink. He even has a dog. But then Federal Police raid his home with a warrant granting them unprecedented powers to take anything they want – including all his electronic devices and passwords. When Bailey protests, they threaten to put him in a prison cell if he doesn’t comply. Someone wants to stop Bailey doing what he does best – exposing the truth. He has been investigating the rise of a global white supremacist group and suspects that a notorious neo-Nazi in the United States has been directing deadly racist attacks on Sydney’s streets. When a body of one of his key sources washes up on a nearby beach, it’s clear Bailey and anyone helping him have become targets. Bailey reaches out for help from a reliable and ruthless old friend – CIA veteran, Ronnie Johnson – and the pair discover a deadly enemy emerging from the shadows. An enemy who thought they were untouchable. Until now… “Sharp, gritty, sophisticated. Ayliffe’s criminal world is terrifyingly real” CANDICE FOX"

Tim Ayliffe (Author), Lani John Tupu (Narrator)

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State of Fear

"John Bailey has a history of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The former war correspondent has been kidnapped and tortured – twice. Finally he’s living something that resembles a normal life. But all that changes when a terrorist murders a woman in front of Bailey in London. The mastermind behind the attack is Mustafa al-Baghdadi – No.1 on the FBI’s most wanted list – and the man who tortured Bailey in Fallujah a decade ago. Mustafa has a deadly axe to grind with Bailey. He taunts him with threats of more attacks in other cities, closer to home. Back in Sydney, the people who matter most to Bailey have become targets. Bailey turns to the only man who can help – ruthless CIA veteran Ronnie Johnson – to bring down the world’s most deadly terrorist. “As a correspondent, I lived this world. Tim Ayliffe has written it.” STAN GRANT, writer and broadcaster."

Tim Ayliffe (Author), Lani Tupu (Narrator)

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The Greater Good

"Battered war correspondent John Bailey is a man living on the edge. He’s haunted by nightmares of being kidnapped and tortured in Iraq and he’s drinking too much to drown the memories. As he battles to get his life back together, a story breaks that will force him back into the spotlight – and into the crosshairs of a deadly international player. When a beautiful prostitute is found murdered in her luxury Sydney apartment, Bailey is ordered to cover the story by The Journal’s editor and his old friend, Gerald Summers, because he can’t trust anyone else. One of the victim’s clients, a key advisor to the Defence Minister, is chief suspect in her murder and he’s on the run. When he contacts Bailey, claiming to have information that will bring down the government, the stakes become deadly. To complicate matters,the investigating police detective is the woman Bailey walked out on a decade ago. When a ruthless CIA fixer turns up, followed by a murderous Chinese agent hot on his trail, Bailey realises he has stumbled onto the story of a lifetime – one that he may not live to tell."

Tim Ayliffe (Author), Lani John Tupu (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Tim Ayliffe

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