The Hard Kill: Audiobook
Book 1 of the John Stone Action Thriller series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Hard Kill runs 3.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Roger Wayne (about 2.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 3.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day | 4 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 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 3.3 hours, it is shorter than 89% of the 13,042 Suspense audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on John Stone Action Thriller
This is book 1. Books 1 to 4 run 17.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hard Kill | 3.3 hrs |
| 2 | Divide and Conquer | 5.1 hrs |
| 3 | Fractured Allegiance | 4.6 hrs |
| 4 | Head of the Serpent | 4.6 hrs |
More narrated by Roger Wayne
Roger Wayne narrates 308 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,680 hours in all.
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- Master Your Mind: Counterintuitive Strategies to Refocus and Re-Energize Your Runaway Brain
- The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
- A Walk Along the Beach
- Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
About as long, on the Suspense shelf
205 Suspense 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 Hard Kill is book 1 of Brian Manning's John Stone Action Thriller series: a 3.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Roger Wayne, released November 20, 2018, on the Suspense and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 3.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Roger Wayne
- Released
- November 20, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Suspense, Fiction
- Series
- John Stone Action Thriller #1
- ISBN
- 9781977330659
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Hard Kill as an audiobook?
The Hard Kill runs 3.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.2 hours.
Is The Hard Kill free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Hard Kill?
The Hard Kill is narrated by Roger Wayne.