Part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later-and all-consuming-this tightly written, edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you deep into the heart of darkness, where fear feeds on sanity…and terror hungers for more. A grown-up’s mindeven one belonging to a decent man like Scoutmaster Timlacked that elasticity. In this way, he was glad not to be an adult. An ability to withstand horrors and snap back, like a fresh elastic band. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or one another. Nick Cutter, The Troop 25 likes Like It came down to that flexibility of a person’s mind. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite-shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry-Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip-a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. This “grim microcosm of terror and desperation haunting” (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) follows a scout troop on a terrifying fight for survival when they come across a mysterious-and deadly-stranger in the Canadian wilderness. In 2014, author Craig Davidson published his young adult horror novel The Troop under the pseudonym Nick Cutter. This is old-school horror at its best.” -Stephen King “ The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down.
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