The City Stained Red: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Bring Down Heaven series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The City Stained Red runs 22.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David DeSantos (about 15 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 22.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 45 days |
| 1 hour / day | 23 days |
| 2 hours / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 15 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 22.5 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Bring Down Heaven
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 72.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The City Stained Red | 22.5 hrs |
| 2 | The Mortal Tally | 24.5 hrs |
| 3 | God's Last Breath | 25.1 hrs |
More narrated by David DeSantos
David DeSantos narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 73 hours in all.
About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf
143 Action & Adventure (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 City Stained Red is book 1 of Sam Sykes's Bring Down Heaven series: a 22.5-hour unabridged recording, read by David DeSantos, released January 27, 2015, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) and Epic Fantasy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 22.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- David DeSantos
- Released
- January 27, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Action & Adventure (Fiction), Epic Fantasy
- Series
- Bring Down Heaven #1
- ISBN
- 9781478927846
How to listen to The City Stained Red free
New members at audiobooks.com get three free audiobooks with the trial.
Separately, the store's catalog carries more than 10,000 audiobooks that are always free to stream.
Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The City Stained Red as an audiobook?
The City Stained Red runs 22.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 15 hours.
Is The City Stained Red free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The City Stained Red?
The City Stained Red is narrated by David DeSantos.
Is The City Stained Red worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 15 hours, saving 7.5 hours.