Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years audiobook runs 9.4 hours unabridged, narrated by John Pruden (about 6.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 9.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 19 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 9.4 hours, it runs longer than 71% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
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John Pruden narrates 218 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,341 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
2,212 Memoirs 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
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years is an audiobook by Michael J. Collins MD: a 9.4-hour unabridged recording, read by John Pruden, released February 14, 2017, on the Memoirs and History & Culture shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Pruden
- Released
- February 14, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, History & Culture
- ISBN
- 9781515988151
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years audiobook?
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years runs 9.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.2 hours.
Is the Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years audiobook free?
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Who narrates Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years?
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon’s First Years is narrated by John Pruden.