How long does it take to read Vixen 03?
Clive Cussler, Anibal Leal Fernández
Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler, Anibal Leal Fernández takes about 6 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Dirk Pitt
Previous: Raise the Titanic! Next: Night Probe!
About 6 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1976. 362 pages, about 99,550 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
1954 Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the south Pacific and bearing several canisters of a particularly virulent organism, vanishes. Believed ditched at sea, Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, on holiday, discovers remnants of Vixen 03. The lethal canisters are raised—but they're not all accounted for. It turns out that two of them are in the hands of an African terrorist group. The group's mission: to attack nothing less than Washington, D.C. The catch is that the group is not aware that it will be firing anything but conventional missiles. But Pitt knows—and so does the president of the United States. To complicate matters further, the World War II ghost ship bearing the catastrophic warheads up the Potomac cannot be blown out of the water. Pitt's problems are compounded when he and his lady, a United States congresswoman, becomes the target of a vicious blackmail scheme.
Subjects: Fiction, Dirk Pitt (Fictitious character), Terrorism in fiction, Terrorism, Adventure stories, Politics and government
