Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2023) From the Publisher: Ben Richards is a desperate man. With no job, no money, no way out, and a young daughter in need of proper medical attention, he must turn to the only possibility of striking it rich in this near-future dystopian America: participating in the ultra-violent TV programming of the government-sanctioned Games Network. Ben soon finds himself selected as a contestant on the biggest and the best that the Games Network has to offer: "The Running Man," a no-holds-barred thirty-day struggle to stay alive as public enemy number one, relentlessly hunted by an elite strike force bent on killing him as quickly as possible in front of an audience all too eager to see that happen. It means a billion dollars in prize money if he can live for the next month. No one has ever survived longer than eight days. But desperation can push a person do things they never thought possible -- and Ben Richards is willing to go the distance in this ultimate game of life and death... Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. 40th anniversary edition. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781982197100 (December, 2022), 416 p., $9.99.
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Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2016) From the Publisher: It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate -- he needs money to treat his daughter's illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is another issue when everyone else on the planet is watching -- and willing to turn him in for the reward. With an introduction by Stephen King on "The Importance of Being Bachman." Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781501143854 (August, 2016), 432 p., $9.99.
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Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2016) From the Publisher: It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate -- he needs money to treat his daughter's illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is another issue when everyone else on the planet is watching -- and willing to turn him in for the reward. With an introduction by Stephen King on "The Importance of Being Bachman." Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Gallery Books, ISBN: 9781501144516 (March, 2016), 432 p., $16.00.
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Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2016) From the Publisher: It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate -- he needs money to treat his daughter's illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is another issue when everyone else on the planet is watching -- and willing to turn him in for the reward. With an introduction by Stephen King on "The Importance of Being Bachman." Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Scribner eBook, ISBN: 9781501141355 (January, 2016), 2813 KB (ca. 260 p.), $7.99.
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Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (UK 2013) From the Publisher: They all watched, from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to bet not the clock, but annihhilation at the hands of the Hunters. Survive thirty days and win the billion dollar jackpot - that was the promise. But the odds were brutal and the game rigged. Best score so far was eight days. And now there was a new contestant, the latest running man, staking his life while a nation watched. Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781444723540 (December, 2012), 256 p., £8.99.
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Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (UK 2007) From the Publisher: Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340952283 (June, 2007), 241 p., £7.99.
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Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 1999) From the Publisher: Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. With an introduction by the author: The Importance of Being Richard Bachman. Signet, ISBN: 0451197968 (August, 1999), 317 p., $7.99.
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Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 1987) From the Publisher: Each night they see if the contestant has evaded death at the hands of the Hunters just one more day. Thirty days of survival takes the prize-one billion dollars. The record is eight days... But now a new contestant, Ben Richards, has set out to beat the brutal odds, beat the rigged game, beat the entire savage system. He's betting his life that he can... Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. With an introduction by the author: The Importance of Being Richard Bachman. Signet, ISBN: 0451151224 (August, 1987), 219 p., $3.95.
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