How long does it take to read Billion-dollar Brain?
Billion-dollar Brain by Len Deighton takes about 5 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of IPCRESS
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About 5 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 312 pages, about 85,800 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac's private cold war, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File.The fourth of Deighton's novels to be narrated by the unnamed employee of WOOC(P) is the thrilling story of an anti-communist espionage network owned by a Texan billionaire, General Midwinter, run from a vast computer complex known as the Brain. After having been recruited by Harvey Newbegin, the narrator travels from the bone-freezing winter of Helsinki, Riga and Leningrad, to the stifling heat of Texas, and soon finds himself tangling with enemies on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Subjects: Fiction, Thriller, English Science fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, general, Fiction, espionage
