A Desperate Paradise: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Adam Park Thriller series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Desperate Paradise runs 9.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Nigel Patterson (about 6.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9.3 hours, it runs longer than 61% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Adam Park Thriller
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 11.1 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 28.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Dead and the Missing | 11.1 hrs |
| 2 | A Desperate Paradise | 9.3 hrs |
| 3 | The Shadows of Empty Men | 7.8 hrs |
More narrated by Nigel Patterson
Nigel Patterson narrates 153 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,957 hours in all.
- Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
- The Door on Half-Bald Hill
- Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
6,110 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Desperate Paradise is book 2 of A.D. Davies's Adam Park Thriller series: a 9.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Nigel Patterson, released August 22, 2017, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Nigel Patterson
- Released
- August 22, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Adam Park Thriller #2
- ISBN
- 9781541478121
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Desperate Paradise as an audiobook?
A Desperate Paradise runs 9.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.2 hours.
Is A Desperate Paradise free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Desperate Paradise?
A Desperate Paradise is narrated by Nigel Patterson.