How long does it take to read Patriot Games?
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy takes about 10 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 1975. 545 pages, about 149,875 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Patriot Games is a thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and published in July 1987. Without Remorse, released six years later, is an indirect prequel, and it is chronologically the first book featuring Jack Ryan, the main character in most of Clancy's novels. The novel focuses on Ryan being the target of Irish terrorist group Ulster Liberation Army for thwarting their kidnapping attempt on the Prince and Princess of Wales in London.
Subjects: Fiction, Jack Ryan (Fictitious character), Sr. Ryan, Jack (Fictitious character), Fiction, thrillers, espionage
