The Best Thing You Can Steal: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Gideon Sable series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Best Thing You Can Steal runs 7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gideon Emery (about 4.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 7 hours, it is shorter than 64% of the 13,269 Science Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Gideon Sable
This is book 1. Books 1 to 5 run 34.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best Thing You Can Steal | 7 hrs |
| 2 | A Matter of Death and Life | 7.9 hrs |
| 3 | What Song the Sirens Sang | 6.5 hrs |
| 4 | Not of This World | 6.6 hrs |
| 5 | Where Is Anybody? | 6.5 hrs |
More narrated by Gideon Emery
Gideon Emery narrates 50 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 594 hours in all.
About as long, on the Science Fiction shelf
1,351 Science 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
The Best Thing You Can Steal is book 1 of Simon R. Green's Gideon Sable series: a 7-hour unabridged recording, read by Gideon Emery, released April 6, 2021, on the Science Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gideon Emery
- Released
- April 6, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Science Fiction
- Series
- Gideon Sable #1
- ISBN
- 9781705005521
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Best Thing You Can Steal as an audiobook?
The Best Thing You Can Steal runs 7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.6 hours.
Is The Best Thing You Can Steal free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Best Thing You Can Steal?
The Best Thing You Can Steal is narrated by Gideon Emery.