How long does it take to read The Falcon and the Snowman?
Robert Lindsey
The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey takes about 7 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1979. 383 pages, about 105,325 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
True story about two young men from affluent families who, under the code names "Falcon" and "Snowman," commit a brazen act of espionage, by selling some of America's most sensitive secrets to the KGB.
Subjects: Biography, Soviet Espionage, Spies, Espionage, russian, Russian Espionage
