How long does it take to read The Company?
a novel of the CIA
Robert Littell
The Company by Robert Littell takes about 16 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 23 minutes
A long haul
First published 2002. 894 pages, about 245,850 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover: Welcome to the Company - better known as the CIA to outsiders. With a sharp eye for the pathos and absurdity of the spy game, internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga that races across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the 1950s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch. The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy -- and each other -- in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell's place among the genre's elite.
Subjects: International relations, Intelligence officers, Fiction, United States, Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
