Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2025)

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In the reality TV show The Running Man, the only objective is to stay alive.
This "slam-bang action suspense" (Gilbert Cruz, Vulture) from Stephen King is now a major motion picture from Paramount.

Ben Richards has no job, no money, and a young daughter who urgently needs medical attention. Desperate, out of options, he signs up for The Running Man, "the biggest show in the country." It's an ultraviolent competition where the stakes could not be higher. Ben must stay alive for thirty days while an elite strike force, trained to kill, hunts for him. If he can survive for a month, he wins a billion dollars. No contestant has ever lasted longer than eight days. Can Ben Richards win this ultimate game of life and death?

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Media Tie-In Trade Paperback. Scribner's, ISBN: 9781668208120 (November, 2025), 344 p., $20.00.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2023)

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A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman. "Under any name King mesmerizes the reader" (Chicago Sun-Times).

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), 411 p., $9.99.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2016)

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A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.

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), 411 p., $9.99.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.

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), 344 p., $16.00.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.

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.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (UK 2013)

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IT'S NOT A GAME WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE.
Every night they tune in to the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show.
They all watch, from the sprawling polluted slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watch the ultimate live death game as the contestants try to beat not the clock, but annihilation at the hands of the Hunters. Survive thirty days and win the billion dollar jackpot - that is the promise. But the odds are brutal and the game rigged. Best score so far is eight days.

And now there is a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watches.

'Love The Hunger Games?... This prescient novel is a fast-paced and fun read - a harbinger of reality TV - and you'll root for Ben to outwit the Games Network in this grim fight to the death' -- TODAY BOOKS, NBC NEWS

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9781444723540 (December, 2012), 241 p., £8.99.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (UK 2007)

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Every night the whole nation watches the ultimate live game show on TV, as the contestants try to beat annihilation at the hands of the hunters in order to win the billion dollar jackpot. And now there is a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watches.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN: 9780340952283 (June, 2007), 241 p., £7.99.

Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman: The Running Man (USA 1999)

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Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. His eighteen-month-old daughter is sick, and neither Ben nor his wife can afford to take her to a doctor. For a man from the poor side of town with no cash and no hope, there's only one thing to do: become a contestant on one of the Network's Games, shows where you can win more money than you've ever dreamed of -- or die trying. Now Ben's going prime-time on the Network's highest-rated viewer-participation show. And he's about to become prey for the masses...

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.