How long does it take to read He Shall Thunder in the Sky?
He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters takes about 12 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 15 of Amelia Peabody series
Previous: The Falcon at the Portal Next: Lord of the Silent
About 12 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 656 pages, about 180,400 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The pursuit of knowledge must never be deterred by Man's folly. So the close of 1914 finds Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson back in Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation.". "Trouble is brewing in Cairo and the defiantly pacifist stance of Amelia and Emerson's headstrong son Ramses is earning the young man the derision, and much worse, of the British expatriate community. Meanwhile, the charismatic nationalist el Wardani is said to be fomenting insurrection in the ancient city. And since there is no way to stand outside the political hurricane that is suddenly threatening their lives, Amelia plunges directly into it.". "When el Wardani escapes a police dragnet, thanks to the direct intervention of Amelia and Emerson, the family's stake in a perilous game is raised considerably. But it's Ramses' strange secret role in it that could truly bring ruin down upon all their heads. However, there is more than intrigue and espionage, plots and counterplots, at work here. For an artifact uncovered at a Giza dig - an exquisite sculpture found where it ought not to be - confirms Amelia's most unsettling suspicion: that the chaos consuming Cairo has masked nefarious reemergence of Amelia's villainous arch-nemesis, Sethos, the Master Criminal."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Egyptologists, Amelia Peabody (Fictitious character), Women archaeologists, Archaeologists, Mystery fiction
