Part of the Richard Bachman Series
The Running Man
219 Pages
Published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
In a bleak, totalitarian future where the rich are richer, the poor are desperate, and reality TV is weaponized, Ben Richards enters the nation’s most infamous game show: The Running Man. The prize? Money, medicine, and a chance to save his family. The rules? He’ll be hunted by professional killers and civilians alike live on television until he dies…or wins.
But Ben isn’t playing for entertainment. He’s playing to tear the system down.
The Running Man is a fast-moving and brutally cynical dystopian thriller. It’s King at his most political and punk, predicting a world of corporate control, media exploitation, and bloodsport as primetime entertainment. And once it starts running, it doesn’t stop.