Part of the Richard Bachman Series
The Long Walk
384 Pages
Published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
In a near-future America ruled by a militarized regime, 100 teenage boys set off on a brutal contest called the Long Walk. The rules are simple: keep walking at four miles per hour. Don’t stop. Don’t slow down. Don’t fall behind. If you do, you get a warning. After three warnings, you get your ticket punched. Permanently.
Only one boy will win. The prize? Anything he wants for the rest of his life. But as exhaustion, mind games, and death set in, the real prize becomes survival of body. And sanity.
The Long Walk is one of King’s bleakest and most relentless novels. It’s a dystopian pressure cooker wrapped in teenage fear, cruelty, and fragile camaraderie. Every step is a countdown, and no one walks away the same.