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How many pages is Clear and Present Danger?

Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy has a median of 704 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 672 to 816 pages.

Median pages
704
11 editions counted
Range
656–1,140
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
12h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
194k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Clear and Present Danger take you?

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Reading time
12 h 25 min
At 30 min a day
25 days
At 1 hour a day
13 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

6008001,0001,2001989199019911992199319941989: 656 pages1989: 656 pages1989: 656 pages1990: 1,140 pages1990: 704 pages1990: 688 pages1990: 816 pages1993: 816 pages1993: 816 pages1994: 688 pagesmedian 704
6008001,0001,2001990199219941989: 656 pages1989: 656 pages1989: 656 pages1990: 1,140 pages1990: 704 pages1990: 688 pages1990: 816 pages1993: 816 pages1993: 816 pages1994: 688 pagesmedian 704
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 42 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1994Berkley–688OL7503638M
1993HarperCollins–816OL19519487M
1993HarperCollins–816OL21883162M
1990Thorndike-Magna–1,140OL2205164M
1990Berkley–704OL7503193M
1990Berkley Books–688OL22367688M
1990Guild–816OL16173191M
1989Putnam–656OL2191563M

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Questions

How many pages is Clear and Present Danger?
About 704 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 656 to 1,140 pages.
How long does it take to read Clear and Present Danger?
About 12 h 25 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 25 days.
How many words is Clear and Present Danger?
Roughly 194,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).