How long does it take to read Call for the Dead?
Call for the Dead by John le Carré takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of George Smiley series
Next: A Murder of Quality
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1961. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Le Carre's first book which introduces George Smiley. Smiley investigates the apparent suicide of Samuel Fennan, who worked in the Foreign Office and had been under investigation due to his communist background at Oxford.
Subjects: Fiction, Cold War, George Smiley (Fictitious character), Intelligence officers, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
