How long does it take to read By Order of the President?
By Order of the President by W. E. B. Griffin takes about 11 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Presidential Agent
Next: The Hunters
About 11 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 608 pages, about 167,200 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider--Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo--for answers. A pilot, West Point graduate, and veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the facts--and the truth behind them. In Africa, he is helped and hindered by unexpected allies and ruthless enemies, and begins to untangle a plot of horrific dimensions--a plot that, unless Castillo acts quickly, will end very, very badly.
Subjects: Fiction, Air pilots, Military, Americans, Hijacking of aircraft, Government investigators, Undercover operations
