The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science runs 11.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ben Sullivan (about 7.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 79% of the 2,718 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Ben Sullivan
Ben Sullivan narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 82 hours in all.
- The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- The Soul of A New Machine
- The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
- The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From
- Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
About as long, on the True Crime shelf
442 True Crime audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina Dejesus
- Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door
- The Library Book
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 Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science is an audiobook by Sam Kean: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Ben Sullivan, released July 13, 2021, on the True Crime and Biology & Chemistry shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ben Sullivan
- Released
- July 13, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- True Crime, Biology & Chemistry
- ISBN
- 9781549102929
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science as an audiobook?
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.8 hours.
Is The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science?
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science is narrated by Ben Sullivan.
Is The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.8 hours, saving 3.9 hours.