How long does it take to read State of Fear?
State of Fear by Michael Crichton takes about 12 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 32 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 684 pages, about 188,100 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 51 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
State of Fear is a techno-thriller in which a lawyer named Peter Evans handles the legal affairs of George Morton, a millionaire philanthropist who funds an environmentalist group. Morton grows suspicious of the group's director, Nicholas Drake, after finding that donated money has been misused. Two agents posing as researchers then arrive, tracking an eco-terrorist network that stages deadly "natural" disasters to convince the public that global warming is a catastrophe, all timed to coincide with a major climate conference. Evans joins them on a journey around the world to stop the attacks. The novel is packed with graphs, footnotes and a bibliography.
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Subjects: conflicts of interest, swashes, blue-ringed octopuses, scientific conferences, spy and adventure novels, Suspense fiction
