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The Running Man

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內容簡介 恐怖小說之王Stephen King早期化名Richard Bachman所寫的反烏托邦小說，一個沒錢萬萬不能的年代，名列黑名單的主角，有可能利用極不公平的電視實境死亡遊戲，獲取大筆獎金，治癒女兒的病嗎？2025年的美國，市場資本主義與電視實境秀已經到了無法控制的局面。一個叫做The Running Man的電視實境遊戲節目，祭出了10億美金的大獎給最後的勝利者。節目為期1個月，參賽者得賭上自己的性命，通過各項遊戲的考驗。這些遊戲包括了”向錢看跑步機”(Treadmills to Bucks)，參賽者得努力跟上跑步機的速度，不然不是敗下陣來就是死於心臟衰竭；還有稱為”勇渡鱷魚河”(Swim the Crocodiles)的項目。每通過一項遊戲，獎金便往上加。除此之外，他們還要努力避開獵人們的追殺。節目開播6年，無人幸還。Ben Richards 18個月大的女兒生了病，只要有錢便可治癒，無力負擔醫藥費的他，只能抱著豁出去的絕望心境參加這個瘋狂變態的實境節目，他有可能成為第一個生還者，拿到豐厚的獎金來治癒女兒的病嗎？本書是恐怖小說之王Stephan King化名Richard Backman所寫的反烏托邦小說，雖是生涯早期就已完成的作品，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..."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Stephen KingStephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11 22 63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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