This was written by Stephen King aka Richard Bachman: Is a contest of death....the winner gets the ultimate prize, anything they want for life, and the losers get punished with death. The rules are very simple. If you walk too slow, you get a warning, four warnings and you are shot. There is only one winner, and the story concentrates on a group of people that become friends and enemies during this inhumane walk.

One by one Ray Garraty sees the people around him die, and he faces the truths of his own entry into the Long Walk, and those of his new "friends". He is aware that only one will survive all the way, but it is not until the end that he realised the finality of his situation, and he slowly looses his sanity little by little......