The Guns of Empire: Audiobook
Book 4 of the Shadow Campaigns series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Guns of Empire runs 19.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard Poe (about 13 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 19.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 39 days |
| 1 hour / day | 20 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 13 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 19.5 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Shadow Campaigns
This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 64.3 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 104.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Thousand Names | 22.3 hrs |
| 2 | The Shadow Throne | 21.3 hrs |
| 3 | The Price of Valor | 20.8 hrs |
| 4 | The Guns of Empire | 19.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Infernal Battalion | 21 hrs |
More narrated by Richard Poe
Richard Poe narrates 198 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,360 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
382 Literary 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 Guns of Empire is book 4 of Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns series: a 19.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard Poe, released August 9, 2016, on the Literary Fiction and Epic Fantasy shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 19.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard Poe
- Released
- August 9, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
- Series
- Shadow Campaigns #4
- ISBN
- 9781501923968
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Guns of Empire as an audiobook?
The Guns of Empire runs 19.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13 hours.
Is The Guns of Empire free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Guns of Empire?
The Guns of Empire is narrated by Richard Poe.
Is The Guns of Empire worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13 hours, saving 6.5 hours.