Winter Counts: A Novel

Time to Read
5 hrs 9 mins

Reading Time

5 hrs 9 mins

How long to read Winter Counts: A Novel?

The estimated word count of Winter Counts: A Novel is 77,035 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 9 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 34 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 52 mins.

Winter Counts: A Novel - 77,035 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 8 hrs 34 mins
Average 250 words/min 5 hrs 9 mins
Fast 450 words/min 2 hrs 52 mins
Winter Counts: A Novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Authors
David Heska Wanbli Weiden

More about Winter Counts: A Novel

77,035 words

Word Count

for Winter Counts: A Novel

336 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 336 pages
Kindle: 331 pages

8 hours and 17 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

“Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth. This book is a brilliant meditation on power and violence, and a testament to just how much a crime novel can achieve. Weiden is a powerful new voice. I couldn’t put it down.”  —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA Recommended Read from:Buzzfeed * Electric Literature * Lit Hub * Shondaland * Publishers WeeklyA groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that’s hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil’s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost. Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling.