How long does it take to read An Expensive Place To Die?
An Expensive Place To Die by Len Deighton takes about 4 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of IPCRESS
Previous: Billion-Dollar Brain
About 4 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 252 pages, about 69,300 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable. A 'clinic' on Paris's Avenue Foch designed to cater lavishly for multiple perversions, staffed by a group of sexually and intellectually high-powered girls and equipped with devices ranging from an Iron Maiden to psychedelic truth-drugs -- that's the set-up operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt. Naturally, it has a hidden purpose: to compile dossiers of tape and film on influential political clients from East and West. Into this twilight world of decadence and hidden motives come the agents of four world powers.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Intelligence service, Suspense fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general
