How long does it take to read Whiteout?
Whiteout by Ken Follett takes about 8 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 446 pages, about 122,650 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company’s director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus – but he isn’t the only one: His grown children, who have come to spend Christmas, have their eyes on the money it will bring. Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; a local television reporter, determined to move up, has sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it; and a violent trio of thugs is on its way to steal it for a client already waiting – though what the client really has in mind is something that will shock them all. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks – jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries – crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge…
Subjects: Security consultants, Ex-police officers, Fiction, Pharmaceutical industry, Animal rights activists, Suspense fiction
