Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His recent work includes Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Three warnings and you're out of the game-permanently.
Slow down under the speed limit and you're given a warning. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. There is no finish line-the winner is the last man standing. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping.with the winner being awarded "The Prize"-anything he wants for the rest of his life. "I give my congratulations to the winner among your number, and my acknowledgements of valor to the losers."Īgainst the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long Walk. 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.
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