Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction
Summary
In this #1 national bestseller, "master storyteller" (
Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard
Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling
walking competition where there can only be one
winner—the one that survives.
In the near future, when America has become a police
state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest
where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest
of his life. Among them is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty, and he
knows the rules—keep a steady walking pace of four miles
per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're
out—permanently.
With an introduction by Stephen King on "The Importance
of Being Bachman."