Movie/Book help

"The Body" isn't a full length novel, it's a novella. It's included in a collection by King called 'Different Seasons' (which also includes "Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption", the vastly superior to the movie "Apt Pupil", and "The Breathing Method"). The story? Vastly the same at its core - four kids, same four names, descriptions that match the casting pretty well, looking for a dead kid's body. Where the movie ends, Stephen King steps in and does his "no one gets a happy ending, not even the reflective sort of feel-good sad ending like the movie" thing.

By and large, the same. The entire book is a quick read, and it's worth it for Apt Pupil and Shawshank alone (the former having had a near complete train wreck of an adaptation, and the latter just being worth the read for the sake of it). I think a mass market trade of it would run you like $7 or $8.