By Stephen King
In this number one nationwide bestseller, "master storyteller" (Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the story of the contestants of a grueling strolling pageant the place there can purely be one winner-the one who survives.
In the close to destiny, whilst the USA has turn into a police kingdom, 100 boys are chosen to go into an annual contest the place the winner might be provided no matter what he desires for the remainder of his lifestyles. between them is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty, and he understands the rules-keep a gradual jogging velocity of 4 miles in line with hour with out preventing. 3 warnings and you're out-permanently.
A "psychologically darkish story with remark on society, teenage lifestyles, and cultural leisure, The lengthy Walk remains to be poignant many years after its unique publication" (Publishers Weekly). This version gains an advent via Stephen King on "The significance of Being Bachman."
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The Frogman on the far right of the group was a huge figure, well over seven feet. He tottered on high heels that made him seem monstrously camp. His laboured breathing, slow and steady through the air-tube of his heavy rubber gas mask, or discipline helmet, carried over the heads of the crowd. A ponderous latex suit swathed his body. Beneath his suit very loose thin rubber bloomers hung. His balls were tightly strapped around the base of his scrotum. That sexual tension, Horror knew, would make him a more exacting biexcreterminator.
The musculature of the man's head fell, and slopped, light as a sherry trifle. Horror snapped his mouth open-and-shut in broad crushing strokes. In his cheeks, blood and bone meshed in a stew, and he chewed solidly on the head. Intermittently, he shook it, as a dog shakes a bone. As he ate, the giant Frogman's body jerked in a solo masturbatory dance against his body. Horror spoke through a swell of blood, 'Trying to fuck me, Sonny Jim? I thought you had your 'union card' in fornication; that you were a finished swordsman.
The sight of them was like seeing old friends. The Filipino fighting knife-the balisong-protruded from the waders. The urban skinner, a push dagger held like a corkscrew for a twist death, was THE FROGMEN 43 fixed to the waistbands. Horror's teeth gleamed in the neon as he watched the bobbing chiselled armour-piercing black head of the tanto sneak from the sleeve of a Frogman's macintosh. The fixed single-edged stainless steel blade was designed to slash and drive. Held correctly, with the blade running along the forearm, it was almost impossible to block.