THE RUNNING MAN – Review by Susan Granger
Imaging a dystopian future marked by economic inequality, Stephen King wrote The Running Man back in 1982 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in futuristic America, its hero Ben Richards is so desperate for money to buy medicine for his sick two year-old daughter that he volunteers for the Games Network, a Free-Vee reality television channel in which despairing people compete for monetary prizes.
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