The Cuckoo’s Egg: Audiobook
As an audiobook, The Cuckoo’s Egg runs an estimated 11.2 hours (about 7.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 11.2 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 23 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 11.2 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 78% of the mystery audiobooks we measured.
- That's 30% longer than the average mystery audiobook (8.6 hrs across 582 titles in our dataset).
Computed from mystery audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for mystery listeners who want spycraft: a solid week of commutes at 11.2 hours (estimated).
About the book
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping"— Smithsonian . Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a seventy-five cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"—a mysterious invader who managed to break into US computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy.
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Cuckoo’s Egg as an audiobook?
The Cuckoo’s Egg runs about 11.2 hours, our estimate from its 378 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.5 hours.
Is The Cuckoo’s Egg free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Is The Cuckoo’s Egg worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.5 hours, saving 3.7 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was The Cuckoo’s Egg first published?
The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll was first published in 1989.
