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How many pages is The Enemy?

The Enemy by Lee Child has a median of 496 pages across 15 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 416 to 576 pages.

Median pages
496
15 editions counted
Range
389–720
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
136k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Enemy take you?

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Reading time
8 h 45 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

4006002005201020152004: 720 pages2004: 416 pages2004: 528 pages2004: 416 pages2004: 393 pages2004: 528 pages2004: 412 pages2005: 389 pages2005: 464 pages2009: 576 pages2010: 416 pages2011: 496 pages2012: 614 pages2012: 576 pages2019: 592 pagesmedian 496
4006002005201020152004: 720 pages2004: 416 pages2004: 528 pages2004: 416 pages2004: 393 pages2004: 528 pages2004: 412 pages2005: 389 pages2005: 464 pages2009: 576 pages2010: 416 pages2011: 496 pages2012: 614 pages2012: 576 pages2019: 592 pagesmedian 496
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 15 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 44 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2019Bantam Books–592OL28461594M
2012Random House Large Print–614OL27136415M
2012Penguin Random House–576OL29132882M
2011DellMass Market Paperback496OL24087260M
2010Random House Publishing Group–416OL29584925M
2009Penguin Random House–576OL29079194M
2005Bantam BooksPaperback389OL7850810M
2005Dell–464OL3473578M

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Questions

How many pages is The Enemy?
About 496 pages: that is the median of 15 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 389 to 720 pages.
How long does it take to read The Enemy?
About 8 h 45 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is The Enemy?
Roughly 136,000 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).