The Long Walk
Stephen King
Penguin USA, Inc.
<p>Set in an undetermined future that strangely mirrors our own present, The Long Walk is an exercise in exhaustive horror. The dystopic plot is simple enough: one hundred young boys compete in a marathon, The Long Walk. They are monitered by a military halftrack and a larger-than-life, enigmatic father-figure known only as The Major. The goal is to walk, and walk, and walk. The rules: you cannot walk slower than three miles an hour, you cannot interfere with the other Walkers, and you cannot stop. If any of these rules are broken, you get a warning. A Walker can get three Warnings. Then, they are shot. The winner is the one left alive. One of the Bachman books written by Stephen King under his pseudonym.</p>