How long does it take to read Spartan Gold?
Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood
Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood takes about 9 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 502 pages, about 138,050 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Fargos are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they stumble across a WWII German U-boat. Inside, they find a curious bottle, which they identify as coming from Napoleon's "lost cellar." The Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection – but unbeknownst to them, another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the very bottle they've just found: Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire who claims to be a direct descendant of Persian emperor Xerxes the Great. Bondaruk has no interest in the contents of the bottles, mind you, just the secret that the labels hold – a treasure map which leads to the golden columns stolen from the Greeks by Xerxes. And perhaps a bit more....
Subjects: Fiction, Treasure troves, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, action & adventure
