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How long does it take to read Touch the Devil?

Jack Higgins

Touch the Devil by Jack Higgins takes about 4 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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About 4 hours 36 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1982. 251 pages, about 69,025 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 40 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 36 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 53 minutes

The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Frank Barry, terrorist of the highest order. His ideology is money and his track record is flawless. When the Russians want review copies of the latest NATO missile system, Barry is the man to deliver them. Martin Brosnan, poet, scholar and killer. Trained in Vietnam and then polished in the ranks of the IRA he now languishes in a French prison fortress of Belle Isle. Liam Devlin, Brosnan's best and oldest friend. Devlin wants Brosnan out of jail and on Barry's trail, so he'll use everything in his power to do so...

Subjects: Fiction, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Liam Devlin (Fictitious character)

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