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How long does it take to read Tripwire?

Lee Child

Tripwire by Lee Child takes about 7 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 3 of Jack Reacher

Previous: Die Trying Next: Running Blind

About 7 hours 48 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1999. 425 pages, about 116,875 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 59 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 48 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 52 minutes

The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • abuse
  • war

How these are chosen

Subjects: Private investigators, Murder, Veterans, Fiction, Missing in action, Fiction, thrillers, general

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