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First Comes Duty by P J Strebor

First Comes Duty: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Hope Island Chronicles series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the First Comes Duty audiobook runs 12.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Eric Jason Martin (about 8.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.8listening hrs
Science Fictionstore shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish First Comes Duty at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day26 days
1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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What our data says

  • At 12.8 hours, it runs longer than 80% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

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

First Comes Duty is book 2 of P J Strebor's Hope Island Chronicles series: a 12.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Eric Jason Martin, released July 4, 2017, on the Science Fiction and Space Opera shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.8 hrs
Narrated by
Eric Jason Martin
Released
July 4, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Science Fiction, Space Opera
Series
Hope Island Chronicles #2
ISBN
9781515988656

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the First Comes Duty audiobook?

First Comes Duty runs 12.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.6 hours.

Is the First Comes Duty audiobook free?

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

Who narrates First Comes Duty?

First Comes Duty is narrated by Eric Jason Martin.

Is First Comes Duty worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.6 hours, saving 4.3 hours.