How long does it take to read Payback?
Payback by Gordon Korman takes about 5 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2017. 318 pages, about 87,450 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After a serious betrayal from one of their former friends, the clones of Project Osiris are on the run again. Now separated into pairs, Eli and Tori and Amber and Malik are fighting to survive in the real world. Amber and Malik track down the one person they think can help them prove the existence of Project Osiris, notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster, also known as Malik s DNA donor. But as Malik gets pulled into the criminal world tantalized by hints of a real family his actions put him and Amber into greater danger.
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Criminals, Cloning, Experiments