It takes the average reader 8 hours and 38 minutes to read Hostage by Con Coughlin
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This expose documents how a small group of Westerners came to be the victims of a form of diplomacy which was widely believed to have died out in the Middle Ages. The origins of the Lebanese hostage affair were as recent as February 1984, when the newly-enfranchized Shi'ite Muslims decided they had had enough political double-talk and seized control of West Beirut, by tradition the city's Muslim enclave.
Hostage by Con Coughlin is 506 pages long, and a total of 129,536 words.
This makes it 171% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 47 minutes to read Hostage aloud.
Hostage is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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