How long does it take to read Five Families?
Selwyn Raab
Five Families by Selwyn Raab takes about 14 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 784 pages, about 215,600 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafia's most potent and largest borgatas: New York's Five Families. Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and more. This definitive history brings the reader right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law-enforcement agencies turn their attention to homeland security and away from organized crime.
Subjects: Organized crime, Mafia, Case studies, Crime, united states, New york (n.y.), history
