It takes the average reader 3 hours and 29 minutes to read Escape from Burma by Prem Sharma
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A military coup in 1962 led to the ouster of the democratically elected government in Burma and the establishment of a brutal dictatorship. The Shan people, an ethnic minority, rebel against the military. Escape from Burma is a true story of Sandra and Mya Swe who attempt to leave their country and seek assistance from Bill Shepherd of the U.S. Embassy. Shepherd is a CIA operative and is having an affair with a Shan princess married to a Burmese military officer. Shepherd and the princess flee toward the eastern border but are captured by Kun Chan, a notorious opium warlord. Chan is entertaining a representative of a drug distribution cartel of Europe who is an undercover operative of the US Drug Enforcement Agency.The attempts by Shepherd, the Shan Princess and the DEA operative to escape from the clutches of Kun Chan provide for a suspenseful ending to the novel.
Escape from Burma by Prem Sharma is 205 pages long, and a total of 52,275 words.
This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 45 minutes to read Escape from Burma aloud.
Escape from Burma is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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