How long does it take to read 61 Hours?
61 Hours by Lee Child takes about 8 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 445 pages, about 122,375 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 61 Hours, the fourteenth Jack Reacher thriller, the former military police officer is travelling by bus through South Dakota when it skids on the interstate and stalls. He helps the elderly passengers reach the nearby town of Bolton, which hosts a huge prison. There, the police are bound to drop everything if trouble breaks out at the prison, leaving a retired librarian, the only witness against a local methamphetamine gang, exposed. Reacher agrees to assist the officers in protecting her and in investigating the gang's compound, while the danger grows around them.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Mystery, Winter storms, Assassins, Retired military personnel, Fiction, Witnesses
