How long does it take to read Hard as Nails?
Hard as Nails by Dan Simmons takes about 6 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Joe Kurtz
Previous: Hard Freeze
About 6 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 370 pages, about 101,750 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer, Peg O'Toole, clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies, so narrowing down the suspects isn't easy. But Kurtz knows who's at the head of his list: Angelina Farino Ferrara, the lethal beauty who leads the Farino crime family, and her mob rival, Toma Gonzaga. The odd thing is, each would rather hire Joe Kurtz than fire at him. Someone's causing trouble beneath the gray skies of western New York, and it's drawn the notice of the mobs and the cops. Kurtz is caught in the middle along with the rest of them, and no one knows who's tightening the vise.
Subjects: Drug addicts, Organized crime, Ex-convicts, Crimes against, Fiction, Amusement parks
