How long does it take to read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold?
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of George Smiley series
Previous: A Murder of Quality Next: The Looking Glass War
About 4 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1962. 248 pages, about 68,200 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 144 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's previous novels Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, which also featured the fictitious British intelligence organisation, "The Circus", and its agents George Smiley and Peter Guillam.
Subjects: Fiction, Cold War, Intelligence officers, Intelligence service, English Spy stories, Spies
