A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West runs 13.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith (about 8.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 13.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 27 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 13.2 hours, it runs longer than 87% of the 2,718 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith
Nicholas Guy Smith narrates 100 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,207 hours in all.
About as long, on the True Crime shelf
318 True Crime 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 Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West is an audiobook by Luke Harding: a 13.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Nicholas Guy Smith, released January 24, 2017, on the True Crime and History shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Nicholas Guy Smith
- Released
- January 24, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- True Crime, History
- ISBN
- 9781524749729
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West as an audiobook?
A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West runs 13.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.8 hours.
Is A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West?
A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West is narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith.
Is A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.8 hours, saving 4.4 hours.