Empire of Pain: Audiobook
The Empire of Pain audiobook runs an estimated 21.3 hours (about 14.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 21.3 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 43 days |
| 1 hour / day | 22 days |
| 2 hours / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 15 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 21.3 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 97% of the business audiobooks we measured.
- That's 113% longer than the average business audiobook (10 hrs across 258 titles in our dataset).
Computed from business audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for business listeners: a long-haul epic at 21.3 hours (estimated).
About the book
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences.
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How long is the Empire of Pain audiobook?
Empire of Pain runs about 21.3 hours, our estimate from its 720 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 14.2 hours.
Can I listen to Empire of Pain free?
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Is Empire of Pain worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 14.2 hours, saving 7.1 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Empire of Pain first published?
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Ricard Gil was first published in 2021.
