How long does it take to read The Bone Tree?
The Bone Tree by Greg Iles takes about 14 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 816 pages, about 224,400 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A follow-up to Natchez Burning finds Southern lawyer Penn Cage desperately struggling to protect his father from false charges and corrupt officers by confronting the puppet master behind the Double Eagles terrorist group. Penn Cage's father, Dr. Tom Cage, stands accused of murder, and each effort to defend him unearths new, shocking secrets, leaving Penn to question whether he ever really knew his father at all. At issue is the murder of Tom's former nurse, Viola Turner. The district attorney is quick to point the finger at Tom, citing his decades-old relationship with Viola. When Tom is taken into custody, Penn must explore the dangerous territory of Tom and Viola's shared history, set squarely in the most harrowing years of civil-rights-era Mississippi. What was the relationship between Tom, Viola, and the 'Double Eagle Club,' an ultraviolent group of hardened men who considered themselves smarter, tougher, and more elite than their peers in the FBI-infiltrated Ku Klux Klan? In Natchez, Mississippi, where the past is never truly past, long-buried secrets tend to turn lethal when exposed to the light of day. For Penn Cage, the cost of solving this case is no exception.
Subjects: Penn Cage (Fictitious character), Fiction, Lawyers, fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fiction, suspense
