How long does it take to read Black Order?
Black Order by James Rollins takes about 9 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Sigma Force
Previous: Map of Bones Next: The Judas Strain
About 9 hours 20 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 509 pages, about 139,975 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 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relent-less hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, a young American doctor investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a bru-tal assassin working for clandestine forces that want the affair buried at any cost. Lisa's only ally is a hidden pilgrim, Painter Crowe -- director of SIGMA Force, an elite command of American scientists and Special Forces operatives -- who is already showing signs of the baffling malady that destroyed the minds of the monks.Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa -- and a world in jeopardy -- as SIGMA Force races to expose a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order . . . and alter the destiny of humankind forever.Combining the historic scope of The Da Vinci Code with the relentless thrills of today's best action novels, James Rollins's Black Order is a classic adventure -- an ingenious and breathtaking tour de force that explodes with revelations . . . while offering a startling new view of our place in the grand scheme of existence.
Subjects: Adventure stories, Conspiracies, Fiction, Secret societies, Special forces (Military science), Suspense fiction
