Love Books Daily

Book · by Tom Clancy · first published 2002

How many pages is The Cardinal of the Kremlin?

The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy has a median of 626 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 545 to 748 pages.

Median pages
626
7 editions counted
Range
543–870
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
172k
at 275 words per page
Book 5 of Ryanverse
Series in order

How long will The Cardinal of the Kremlin take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
11 h 02 min
At 30 min a day
23 days
At 1 hour a day
12 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

60080019881990199219941988: 626 pages1988: 543 pages1988: 870 pages1988: 543 pages1989: 547 pages1989: 870 pages1994: 626 pagesmedian 626
60080019881990199219941988: 626 pages1988: 543 pages1988: 870 pages1988: 543 pages1989: 547 pages1989: 870 pages1994: 626 pagesmedian 626
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 29 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1994HarperCollins–626OL22080588M
1989Berkley Books–547OL17985565M
1989Thorndike Press–870OL2049389M
1988Collins–626OL22364995M
1988PutnamHardcover543OL24955452M
1988Thorndike Press–870OL30095850M
1988PutnamHardcover543OL18318763M

More by Tom Clancy

All 11 books by Tom Clancy with page counts

Questions

How many pages is The Cardinal of the Kremlin?
About 626 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 543 to 870 pages.
How long does it take to read The Cardinal of the Kremlin?
About 11 h 02 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 23 days.
How many words is The Cardinal of the Kremlin?
Roughly 172,000 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).