Featured Narrator
Christian Rummel
About Christian Rummel
Christian Rummel is a New York-based actor who has narrated over a hundred audiobooks in a variety of genres. He is a two-time Earphones Award recipient, for his work on Hollywood Crows, by Joseph Wambaugh, and Nelson Demille's The Gold Coast. He is also the narrator of Jack Campbell's best-selling sci-fi series The Lost Fleet.

As a theatre actor, Christian has worked in New York for Classical Theatre of Harlem, Theatre for a New Audience, Peccadillo Theatre, and Clubbed Thumb, and regionally at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, and The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, to name a few. He lives in Brooklyn.
Christian Rummel's Most Recent Performances
Play Hollywood Hills: A Novel
Hollywood Hills: A Novel
Joseph Wambaugh

Hollywood Hills: A Novel

  • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 17 mins)
  • By Joseph Wambaugh
  • Narrated By Christian Rummel
Overall
(87)
Performance
(34)
Story
(32)

LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiance, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate tries to elude her crafty seductions, but consents to keep an eye on their estate in the Hollywood Hills while they're away.

Mary says: "Interesting, Funny & Engaging"
Play The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB
Andrei Soldatov , Irina Borogin

The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB

  • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 24 mins)
  • By Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogin
  • Narrated By Christian Rummel
  • Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(15)
Performance
(6)
Story
(6)

While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse.

Jairus says: "A little difficult to follow"
Play The Great American Stick Up: Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them
The Great American Stick Up: Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them
Robert Scheer

The Great American Stick Up: Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them

  • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 12 mins)
  • By Robert Scheer
  • Narrated By Christian Rummel
  • Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(29)
Performance
(12)
Story
(12)

Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story - the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms - Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.

prince says: "outstanding"
Play Hope's Folly: The Dock Five Universe Series, Book 3
Hope's Folly: The Dock Five Universe Series, Book 3
Linnea Sinclair

Hope's Folly: The Dock Five Universe Series, Book 3

  • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 27 mins)
  • By Linnea Sinclair
  • Narrated By Christian Rummel
  • Whispersync for Voice-ready
Overall
(27)
Performance
(13)
Story
(13)

Admiral Philip Guthrie is in an unprecedented position: on the wrong end of the law, leading a ragtag band of rebels against the oppressive Imperial forces. Or he would be if he could get his command ship, the derelict cruiser called Hope's Folly, functioning. Not much can rattle Philips legendary cool, but the woman who helps him foil an assassination attempt on Kirro Station will.

Essential Listening
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  • Play Less Than Zero
    Less Than Zero
    UNABRIDGED

    Less Than Zero

    • UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
    • By Bret Easton Ellis
    • Narrated By Christian Rummel
    Overall
    (14)
    Performance
    (2)
    Story
    (2)

    Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin.

    Scott says: "Great but Brutal"
    Rummel expertly captures the ennui and ornery entitlement of Los Angeles' teens in this modern classic by celebrated novelist Bret Easton Ellis.
  • Play Hollywood Crows: A Novel
    Hollywood Crows: A Novel
    UNABRIDGED

    Hollywood Crows: A Novel

    • UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 3 mins)
    • By Joseph Wambaugh
    • Narrated By Christian Rummel
    Overall
    (118)
    Performance
    (30)
    Story
    (29)

    When Nate and Bix Rumstead (a supposedly upstanding cop with serious sobriety issues) find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems.

    Christopher Williams says: "Laugh out loud funny and deadly serious"
    Previous roles on Law & Order prepared Rummel well for the flip cop jargon and ethnic accents in this AudioFile Earphones Award-winning sequel to Hollywood Station.
  • Play The Lost Fleet: Relentless
    The Lost Fleet: Relentless
    UNABRIDGED

    The Lost Fleet: Relentless

    • UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 45 mins)
    • By Jack Campbell
    • Narrated By Christian Rummel
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (1917)
    Performance
    (1042)
    Story
    (1057)

    After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos.

    Chance says: "Listen to the complete series"
    Narrating together with the author himself, Rummel delivers a standout performance in this fifth Lost Fleet entry from top military sci-fi writer Jack Campbell.
  • Play Swimsuit
    Swimsuit
    UNABRIDGED

    Swimsuit

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
    • By James Patterson
    • Narrated By Christian Rummel
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (423)
    Performance
    (84)
    Story
    (87)

    Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears. Fearing the worst, her parents travel to Hawaii to investigate for themselves, never expecting the horror that awaits them...A heart-pounding story of fear and desire, Swimsuit transports listeners to a chilling new territory where the collision of beauty and murder transforms paradise into a hell of unspeakable horrors.

    Julie says: "DISAPPOINTING AND DISGUSTING!"
    Rummel takes on one of the biggest names in suspense fiction with this heart-pounding novel from James Patterson with Maxine Paetro.
  • Play Player Piano
    Player Piano
    UNABRIDGED

    Player Piano

    • UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 30 mins)
    • By Kurt Vonnegut
    • Narrated By Christian Rummel
    Overall
    (19)
    Performance
    (0)
    Story
    (0)

    Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut - wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

    sharon a campbell says: "1ST novel of a genius"
    An Audible Modern Vanguard production, Player Piano matches Rummel's seasoned narration with this stunning debut from literary heavyweight Kurt Vonnegut.