Richard Bachman: The Running Man, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Running Man
- Publisher:
- Hodder And Stoughton Ltd., 06/2007
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781444723540
- Item number:
- 9542056
- Volume:
- 241 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2012
- Weight:
- 195 g
- Format:
- 198 x 131 mm
- Thickness:
- 35 mm
- Release date:
- 14.6.2007
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Short description
The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man: Stephen King.
Description
It's not just a game when you're running for your life.
Every night they tuned in to the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show.
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.
Review
Merely by tickling the keys of his word-processor King can make the flesh creep half a world away The Times
Blurb
The iconic bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, '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).
It's not just 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 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.
Publisher's note: The Running Man is also one of the three stories featured in The Bachman Books.
Biography (Stephen King)
Stephen King, geb. 1947 in Portland, Maine, war zunächst als Englischlehrer tätig, bevor ihm 1973 mit seinem ersten Roman 'Carrie' der Durchbruch gelang. Seither hat gilt er als einer der erfolgreichsten Schriftsteller weltweit. Im November 2003 erhielt er den Sonderpreis der National Book Foundation für sein Lebenswerk. Stephen King lebt mit seiner Frau Tabitha in Bangor, Maine.
