The Best of Our Spies: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Spy Masters series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Best of Our Spies runs 16 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by John Lee (about 10.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 16 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 32 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 16 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 2,312 Espionage audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Spy Masters
This is book 1. Books 1 to 4 run 53.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best of Our Spies | 16 hrs |
| 2 | The Swiss Spy | 11.9 hrs |
| 3 | Vienna Spies | 11.9 hrs |
| 4 | The Berlin Spies | 13.5 hrs |
More narrated by John Lee
John Lee narrates 513 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 6,580 hours in all.
About as long, on the Espionage shelf
148 Espionage audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Rose Code
- True Believer
- The Devil's Hand
- Only the Dead
- The Chemist
Other recordings
- The 2016 recording read by Stephen Critchlow runs 0.8 hours longer (16.8 hours).
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
The Best of Our Spies is book 1 of Alex Gerlis's Spy Masters series: a 16-hour unabridged recording, read by John Lee, released September 16, 2015, on the Espionage shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Lee
- Released
- September 16, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Espionage
- Series
- Spy Masters #1
- ISBN
- 9781494586706
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Best of Our Spies as an audiobook?
The Best of Our Spies runs 16 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.7 hours.
Is The Best of Our Spies free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Best of Our Spies?
The Best of Our Spies is narrated by John Lee.
Is The Best of Our Spies worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.7 hours, saving 5.3 hours.