The Long Walk - Stephen King

In this powerful and haunting novel, master storyteller Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, delivers a chilling tale of endurance, obsession, and survival. In a dystopian near-future America that has fallen on hard times, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to take part in the nation’s most brutal competition — the Long Walk. Every year, one hundred teenage boys set out on a relentless journey, walking day and night at a steady pace of four miles per hour. They cannot stop. They cannot rest. If a walker slows below the speed limit, he receives a warning. Three warnings… and he’s out of the game. Forever. There’s no finish line — the winner is simply the last man standing. And the prize? Anything he wants for the rest of his life. But as exhaustion sets in and alliances crumble, Ray begins to realize that in the Long Walk, survival may be the worst prize of all.