How long does it take to read The Three Hostages?
The Three Hostages by John Buchan takes about 5 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 5 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1924. 319 pages, about 87,725 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 204 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Major General Sir Richard Hannay thought that his life of adventure and danger was behind him with the end of the Great War. He was wrong. When an old colleague comes asking for help, Hannay has to come out of retirement to battle a secret society that has kidnapped three innocents to advance their schemes. Hannay, aided by his intrepid wife Mary and his old friends, plunges into a pool of intrigue and hypnosis to find and rescue the Three Hostages before they come to deadly harm. Hannay, the Everyman hero, perseveres through a combination of pluck, grit, clear thinking and trusting in his friends. This time the danger strikes close to home and Hannay may lose everyone that he cares about.
Subjects: Fiction, Great Britain, Intelligence service, Richard Hannay (Fictitious character), Fiction, general, Adventure stories
