How Long to Read The Hard Times

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hard Times?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 13 minutes to read The Hard Times by Russell Scott

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Hard Times is a novel that is, first and foremost, a novel about how men love. It begins in Mississippi. Ray Moffett is an ER doc, and Ray is facing an abyss. When his best friend and former partner comes into the Emergency Department dead, six weeks after his retirement party, Ray finds himself thrown into a search for some semblance of meaning in his own life. His conclusions are not encouraging. A white coat is all he has left, everything else, fallen away. His marriage, gone, he'd left his wife, Lisa, for Anne, a young nurse he was having an affair with. His children were gone. Grown, with lives of their own and no time for a father determined to play the fool. Anne, was gone too. When he'd told her he loved her and asked her to leave her husband she'd quit her job and moved to another state. African Hunting guide, Fritz Dietrich, shows Ray a door back to the adventures he'd dreamed about as a boy. Unfortunately, Fritz isn't exactly what he seems. His past includes murder, theft, and running guns across national borders. Fritz is out of prison only because his older brother, Manfred is the head of security for Namibia's national mining consortium, and, Manfred has problems of his own. He needs to find a way to hide two hundred million dollars worth of illegal diamonds out of Zimbabwe from United Nations' inspectors and he's just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Ray finds himself hunting desert Oryx in the Namib with Fritz, both men trapped. For Fritz to help his brother he must kill Ray and use his papers to smuggle the illegal diamonds into Europe. For Ray to get home alive, he's going to have to kill Fritz and then, somehow find his way out of the most hostile desert on the face of the earth.

How long is The Hard Times?

The Hard Times by Russell Scott is 247 pages long, and a total of 63,479 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hard Times Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 46 minutes to read The Hard Times aloud.

What Reading Level is The Hard Times?

The Hard Times 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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