The Contestant

<p><em>Rudman's modern-day answer to Stephen King's The Running Man in is best yet! </em></p><p>James H Longmore</p><p></p><p>Self-made millionaire realtor Chase Lennon has more money than he could ever possibly spend in his - or his children's - lifetime yet when he receives an anonymous opportunity to become a billionaire by participating in an exclusive game show greed and ego take over and he snaps it up in a heartbeat. </p><p></p><p>All he has to do is not kill himself for one week.</p><p></p><p>Easy enough right?</p><p></p><p>Not when he's being ruthlessly framed for an increasingly brutal series of slayings across the US each in a different state carrying the death penalty. </p><p></p><p>At first it all appears to be an elaborate deepfake set-up by the show's producers. But as the pressure mounts Lennon's wife turns against him and his face is all over the news he realizes the whole thing is terrifyingly real: he's a wanted man hunted by the FBI as a psychotic killer. </p><p></p><p>With the lines between fiction and reality increasingly blurred assistance comes in the unlikely form of a young woman who claims to be a disgruntled producer out to end the show - but can she be trusted? With no other choice Lennon's time on <em>The Contestant</em> becomes a fight to stay alive when there seems to be only one feasible way out.  </p><p></p>