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Back Bay by William Martin

Back Bay: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Peter Fallon series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Back Bay audiobook runs 17.5 hours unabridged, narrated by John Pruden (about 11.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

17.5listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 17.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Back Bay at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day35 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 17.5 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Peter Fallon

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 37.7 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Back Bay17.5 hrs
2Harvard Yard20.2 hrs

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

810 Historical (Fiction) 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

Back Bay is book 1 of William Martin's Peter Fallon series: a 17.5-hour unabridged recording, read by John Pruden, released October 22, 2019, on the Historical (Fiction) and Drama shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
17.5 hrs
Narrated by
John Pruden
Released
October 22, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Drama, Mystery, Thriller & Horror
Series
Peter Fallon #1
ISBN
9781799750987

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Back Bay audiobook?

Back Bay runs 17.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.6 hours.

Is the Back Bay audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Back Bay?

Back Bay is narrated by John Pruden.

Is Back Bay worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.6 hours, saving 5.8 hours.