How long does it take to read Area 7?
Area 7 by Matthew Reilly takes about 9 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Scarecrow Series
Previous: Ice Station Next: Scarecrow
About 9 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 492 pages, about 135,300 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for on this trip. Because hostile forces are waiting inside... Among the President's helicopter crew, however, is a young Marine. He is quiet, enigmatic, and he hides his eyes behind a pair of silver sunglasses. His name is Schofield. Call-sign: Scarecrow. Rumour has it, he's a good man in a storm. Judging by what the President has just walked into, he'd better be...
Subjects: Presidents, Fiction, Military bases, Fiction, suspense, Nevada, fiction, Presidents, fiction
