How long does it take to read Ratking?
Ratking by Michael Dibdin takes about 5 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Aurelio Zen
Next: Vendetta
About 5 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1989. 274 pages, about 75,350 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families.
Subjects: Fiction, Aurelio Zen (Fictitious character), Police, Mystery, Italy, fiction
