How long does it take to read Slow Horses?
Slow Horses by Mick Herron takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Slough House
Next: Dead Lions
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1705. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and it's threatened that he'll be beheaded live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. Is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda ...
Subjects: Intelligence service, Fiction, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, general, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
