The Place of Dead Roads: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Red Night series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Place of Dead Roads runs 9.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ray Porter (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.8 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 |
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 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 58% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Red Night Trilogy
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.6 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 28.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cities of the Red Night | 9.6 hrs |
| 2 | The Place of Dead Roads | 9.8 hrs |
| 3 | The Western Lands | 8.8 hrs |
More narrated by Ray Porter
Ray Porter narrates 293 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,094 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
3,029 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 Place of Dead Roads is book 2 of William S. Burroughs's Red Night series: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Ray Porter, released June 28, 2016, on the Literary Fiction and Science Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ray Porter
- Released
- June 28, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
- Series
- The Red Night Trilogy #2
- ISBN
- 9781504699792
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Place of Dead Roads as an audiobook?
The Place of Dead Roads runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.
Is The Place of Dead Roads free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Place of Dead Roads?
The Place of Dead Roads is narrated by Ray Porter.