How long does it take to read Hour Game?
Hour Game by David Baldacci takes about 8 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of King and Maxwell
Previous: Split Second Next: Simple Genius
About 8 hours 44 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 476 pages, about 130,900 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
He's copying famous serial killers and the game has just begun. A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next. Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defend a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic, dysfunctional family. Then a series of secrets leads the partners right into the frantic hunt that is confounding even the FBI. Now King and Maxwell are playing the Hour Game, uncovering one horrifying revelation after another and putting their lives in danger. For the closer they get to the truth, the closer they get to the most shocking surprise of all.
Subjects: Serial murders, Government investigators, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Thriller, Homicide
