How long does it take to read Patient Zero?
a Joe Ledger novel
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry takes about 7 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 421 pages, about 115,775 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 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills ... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance ..."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Detectives, Bioterrorism, Fiction, Zombies, Terrorism, Prevention
