How long does it take to read The Good Guy?
The Good Guy by Dean Koontz takes about 7 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 401 pages, about 110,275 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend's tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different--and passes to him a manila envelope full of cash."Ten thousand now. You get the rest when she's gone."The stranger walks out, leaving a photo of the pretty woman marked for death, and her address. But things are about to get worse. In minutes another stranger sits next to Tim. This one is a cold-blooded killer who believes Tim is the man who has hired him.Thinking fast, Tim says, "I've had a change of heart. You get ten thousand--for doing nothing. Call it a no-kill fee." He keeps the photo and gives the money to the hired killer. And when Tim secretly follows the man out of the tavern, he gets a further shock: the hired killer is a cop.Suddenly, Tim Carrier, an ordinary guy, is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any cop...and as relentless as evil incarnate. But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero, inner resources that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Suspense, Murder for hire, Mistaken identity, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Crime, fiction
