The Running Man. The Long Walk. Roadwork. Thinner (set of 4 books)

«The Running Man»

Year 2025.
Here poverty and hopelessness reign.
Here people participate not in presidential races, but in races with Death.
Ben Richards lost his job, and along with it the hope of saving his dying daughter. But a man from the slums always has one last way out: participation in a deadly reality show, where his "victim" is pursued by a team of professional killers.
If Ben wins, the cash prize will be huge; if he loses, he will perish.
And now he runs, fighting for his life, while the viewers of this brutal battle have the opportunity to help him – or his pursuers…

«The Long Walk»

It was a terrible game – a game of survival. It was The Long Walk. A walk with Death, for death awaited every fallen. The road to happiness – because the winner of the game gets everything.
Many set out on the long walk – but only one will finish it. The others will lie dead on the road – because the road to happiness for one will become the last road for many.

«Roadwork»

In an ordinary small town lives an ordinary man, slowly but surely sinking into a sea of black hatred for himself and those around him. All it takes is a reason for the hatred to burst forth in a torrent of gushing blood. And when the reason is found, the ordinary man, who has become a killer, can no longer be stopped...

«Thinner»

The horror that has come to the well-fed wealthy town has taken the form of a gypsy camp. The gypsies, eternal wanderers, entertaining the crowd for small coins, possess ancient secrets of black witchcraft. And when the life-satisfied lawyer Billy Halleck accidentally runs over an old woman from the camp and faces no punishment for the incident, the "gypsy baron" punishes him himself. The price for what he has done is such that Billy will regret a thousand times that he survived, for death would have been a mercy...