The Darkest Day: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Victor the Assassin series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Darkest Day runs 9.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Rob Shapiro (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 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 9.7 hours, it is shorter than 56% of the 2,312 Espionage audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Victor the Assassin
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 54.8 hours before it; books 1 to 11 run 135.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Killer | 15.4 hrs |
| 2 | The Enemy | 15 hrs |
| 3 | The Game | 12 hrs |
| 4 | No Tomorrow | 12.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Darkest Day | 9.7 hrs |
| 6 | A Time to Die | 11.2 hrs |
| 7 | The Final Hour | 12 hrs |
| 8 | Kill for Me | 12.9 hrs |
| 9 | A Quiet Man | 11.3 hrs |
| 10 | Traitor | 12.1 hrs |
| 11 | Blood Debt | 11.5 hrs |
More narrated by Rob Shapiro
Rob Shapiro narrates 195 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,128 hours in all.
- The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss of Innocence in a Small Town
- Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
- The Killer
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
About as long, on the Espionage shelf
577 Espionage 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 Darkest Day is book 5 of Tom Wood's Victor the Assassin series: a 9.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Rob Shapiro, released September 1, 2015, on the Espionage shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rob Shapiro
- Released
- September 1, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Espionage
- Series
- Victor the Assassin #5
- ISBN
- 9781494581046
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Darkest Day as an audiobook?
The Darkest Day runs 9.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
Is The Darkest Day free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Darkest Day?
The Darkest Day is narrated by Rob Shapiro.