It takes the average reader 9 hours and 19 minutes to read Dead Man's Touch by Kit Ehrman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
What do you do when everything you've held to be true, when your entire life, In fact, turns out to be a lie? Do you run away? Start over? Create a new truth? This is the dilemma faced by twenty-two-year-old Stephen Cline. Bruised in body and psyche from his adventures in At Risk, Steve gets another blow in Dead Man's Touch, The sudden death of his estranged father in an automobile accident. At the funeral, Steve's disgruntled older brother calls him a bastard - and means it. Literally. Steve, he reveals, Is the product of an affair. Confronting his socialite mother, Steve learns that his real father is a horse trainer, Christopher J. Kessler. Curiosity gets the best of Steve, who's on leave from his job at Foxdale stables, So he heads For The Maryland track where he can find Kessler. The trainer soon notices that Steve is shadowing him and accuses Steve of working for a group of men intent on pressuring him to throw select races in a lucrative race-fixing scam. When Kessler learns that he's a father and Steve is his son, he recruits Steve to work undercover at his training barn to thwart the fix by discovering who's been doping the most promising horses. As Steve settles in, he gets caught up in the unique lifestyle inherent To The backside...... For a man recovering his health, and his courage after an earlier brush with the kind of toughs who can make a life with horses a nightmare, The backside is an inspiration. But it is not a life without peril - some men are willing to do anything to get the right horse under the wire first. Anything from threats to violence to murder. As Steve puts pressure on the bad guys, a young woman is found dead in a horse's stall, and Steve becomes the prime suspect in her murder. He must now discover the ringleader's identity to keep from being put in jail, or worse, In the ground. Kit Ehrman has worked at show barns and breeding farms in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Dead Man's Touch by Kit Ehrman is 546 pages long, and a total of 139,776 words.
This makes it 184% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 43 minutes to read Dead Man's Touch aloud.
Dead Man's Touch is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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