As Richard Bachman1982
The Running Man
Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
In a dystopian future, Ben Richards, a desperate man, enters a lethal TV game show where he must evade professional hunters while the entire nation watches. If he survives for 30 days, he wins a billion dollars.
Did You Know?
- •King wrote the first draft in just 72 hours
- •The 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film bears almost no resemblance to the novel
- •Written in 1971, making it one of King's earliest works
- •Eerily prescient about reality television and surveillance culture
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