How long does it take to read The Puzzle Palace?
The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford takes about 8 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 32 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1982. 465 pages, about 127,875 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The book the NSA tried to suppress -- with a startling new afterword on the Geoffrey Arthur Prime spy case. The National Security Agency is the largest, most secretive, and potentially most intrusive American intelligence agency. It dwarfs the CIA in budget, manpower, and influence. In the three decades it has existed, the NSA has demonstrated a shocking disregard for the law. Until now, the inner workings of this agency have eluded public scrutiny. In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, however, James Bamford penetrates the NSA's vast network of power -- the acres of computers, the electronic listening posts worldwide, the intelligence-gathering satellites, and the people who control them. The Puzzle Palace is a brilliant account of the use and abuse of technological espionage and of the frightening Orwellian potential of today's intelligence communites. - Back cover.
Subjects: Great Britain, United States, United States. National Security Agency, USA, National Security Agency, États-Unis
