It takes the average reader 3 hours and 20 minutes to read The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, naive, sadistic on occasion, the young Henri Butron records his life story on tape just before death catches up with him: a death passed off as a suicide by his killers, French secret service agents who need to hush up their role—and Butron’s—in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a prominent opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the throes of a postcolonial civil war. The N’Gustro Affair is a thinly veiled retelling of the 1965 abduction and killing of Mehdi Ben Barka, a radical opponent of...
The N'Gustro Affair by Jean-Patrick Manchette is 200 pages long, and a total of 50,000 words.
This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 33 minutes to read The N'Gustro Affair aloud.
The N'Gustro Affair is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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