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How long does it take to read Shock Wave?

Clive Cussler

Shock Wave by Clive Cussler takes about 10 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 13 of Dirk Pitt

Previous: Inca Gold Next: Flood Tide

About 10 hours 29 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1996. 572 pages, about 157,300 words.

21 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 17 hours 29 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 10 hours 29 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 33 minutes

The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Dirk Pitt meets the most intriguing and sinister villain of his career--a billionaire Australian diamond king with whom he must wage conflict above and below the sea for the survival of vast numbers of sea creatures and more than a million human beings.

Subjects: Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Fiction, Adventure stories, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general

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