Dry Road to Nowhere: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Hammersmiths of West Texas series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Dry Road to Nowhere audiobook runs 9.9 hours unabridged, narrated by James R. Cheatham (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.9 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.9 hours, it is shorter than 58% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Hammersmiths of West Texas
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.7 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 19.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Frontier Overland Company | 9.7 hrs |
| 2 | Dry Road to Nowhere | 9.9 hrs |
More narrated by James R. Cheatham
James R. Cheatham narrates 58 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 489 hours in all.
- A Mission Without Borders: Why a Father and Son Risked it All for the People of Ukraine
- The Eclipse of God: Our Nation’s Disastrous Search for a More Inclusive Deity (and What We Must Do About It)
- Broken Stars
- The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
- All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
3,283 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
Dry Road to Nowhere is book 2 of J.A. Johnstone's Hammersmiths of West Texas series: a 9.9-hour unabridged recording, read by James R. Cheatham, released May 21, 2024, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Historical (Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- James R. Cheatham
- Released
- May 21, 2024
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Action & Adventure (Fiction), Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War
- Series
- Hammersmiths of West Texas #2
- ISBN
- 9798855515084
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Dry Road to Nowhere audiobook?
Dry Road to Nowhere runs 9.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
Is the Dry Road to Nowhere audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Dry Road to Nowhere?
Dry Road to Nowhere is narrated by James R. Cheatham.