How long does it take to read Past Tense?
Past Tense by Lee Child takes about 7 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 23 of Jack Reacher
Previous: The Midnight Line Next: Blue Moon
About 7 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 410 pages, about 112,750 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Past Tense, the twenty-third Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child, follows Reacher as he travels from Maine toward San Diego and detours to Laconia, New Hampshire, where his father Stan grew up. With help from the town clerk, Elizabeth Castle, and a historian, Carter Carrington, he finds no sign that anyone named Reacher ever lived there. Meanwhile, two Canadian migrants, Shorty Fleck and Patty Sundstrom, hoping to sell rare comic books and start over in Florida, are stranded in Laconia when their car breaks down and take a room at a motel run by four men.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, thrillers, general, Family secrets, Fiction, thrillers, Retired military personnel
