How many pages is London Falling?

379 pages, which is about 114,000 words and 7½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.

Is London Falling worth reading?

Only 44 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 379 pages and about 7½ hrs of your time, or 4½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.

How long is the London Falling audiobook?

About 12½ hrs, estimated from the 114,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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London Falling

Name: London Falling
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe

7½ hrsto read

At your speed≈ 7½ hrs

Pages379

Audiobook≈ 12½ hrs

379 pages works out to roughly 114,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 7½ hrs — a weekend's reading.

Only 44 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.

How long does it take to read London Falling?

London Falling is 379 pages, or roughly 114,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for London Falling at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	11 hrs
Average	250	7½ hrs
Fast	400	4½ hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — use the reading-speed control to set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts.

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Common questions

How long does it take to read London Falling?: About 7½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. London Falling runs 379 pages, roughly 114,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 11 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4½ hrs.
How many pages is London Falling?: 379 pages, which is about 114,000 words and 7½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
Is London Falling worth reading?: Only 44 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 379 pages and about 7½ hrs of your time, or 4½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is the London Falling audiobook?: About 12½ hrs, estimated from the 114,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain’s spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river.…

In a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled up and two officers relayed the dreadful news: her son was dead. In their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to Zac. He had his troubles, but in no way seemed suicidal. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as “Indian Dave.” As the Brettlers set about investigating their son’s death, they were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they’d always known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a suicide had claimed Zac’s life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard seemed unable—or unwilling—to bring the perpetrators to justice. In a bravura feat of reporting and writing, Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the Brettlers’ quest, peeling back layers of mystery and exposing the seedy truths behind the glamorous London of posh mansions and private nightclubs, a city in which everything is for sale, and aspirational fantasies are underwritten by dirty money and corruption. London Falling is a mesmerizing investigation of an inexplicable death and a powerful narrative driven by suspense and staggering revelations. But it is also an intimate and deeply poignant inquiry into the nature of parental love and the challenges of being a parent today, a portrait of a family trying to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.