It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Running with the Enemy by Lloyd Lofthouse
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this suspense thriller set during the Vietnam War, a rogue CIA agent needs someone to blame for his crimes. Recon Marine Ethan Card is the perfect patsy. As a teen, Ethan ran with a Chicago street gang, and he has a criminal record. He also has a secret lover, Tuyen, who is half Vietnamese and half French. Tuyen is also a beautiful Viet Cong resistance fighter. Since she was a young child, Tuyen has lived under the brutal control of her older, sexually abusive half-brother, Giap, a ruthless and powerful Viet Cong leader, who has forced her to kill Americans in battle or die if she refuses. When Ethan discovers he is going to be court marshaled for weapons he did not sell to the Viet Cong and Tuyen will be arrested and end up in an infamous South Vietnamese prison, where she will be tortured and raped, he hijacks a U.S. Army helicopter and flees with Tuyen across Southeast Asia while struggling to prove his innocence. The CIA agent and Giap-working together with the support of an unwitting American general-will stop at nothing to catch the two, and the hunt is on. The star-crossed lovers travel across Laos to Cambodia's Angkor Wat; to Bangkok, Thailand, and then to Burma's Golden Triangle where Ethan and Tuyen fight a ruthless drug lord and his gang. In the rainforests of Burma, Ethan also discovers that a massive assault is planned on his Marine unit's remote base in South Vietnam with the goal of killing the man he admires most, Colonel Edward Price, who is the only one who believes Ethan is innocent. Ethan must risk everything to save Price and his fellow Marines. Will he succeed?
Running with the Enemy by Lloyd Lofthouse is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.
This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Running with the Enemy aloud.
Running with the Enemy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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