Winner of the inaugural James Herbert Award, THE TROOP is a novel that will not fail to get under your skin...
He felt something touch his hand. Which is when he looked down.
For the scouts of Troop 52, three days of camping, hiking and survival lessons on Falstaff Island is as close as they'll get to a proper holiday.
Which was when he saw it.
But when an emaciated figure stumbles into their camp asking for food, the trip takes a horrifying turn. The man is not just hungry, he's sick. Sick in a way they have never seen before.
Which was when he screamed.
Cut off from the mainland, the troop face a terror far worse than anything they could have made up around a campfire. To survive they will have to fight their fears, the elements ... and eventually each other.
'THE TROOP scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. Not for the faint-hearted' Stephen King
Autorentext
Nick Cutter is the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller The Troop (which is currently being developed for film), The Deep, Little Heaven, The Handyman Method, co-written with Andrew F. Sullivan, and The Queen. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, whose much lauded literary fiction includes Rust and Bone, The Saturday Night Ghost Club and, most recently, the short story collection Cascade. His story 'Medium Tough' was selected by author Jennifer Egan for The Best American Short Stories 2014. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
Zusammenfassung
'Scared the hell out of me' Stephen King A normal camping trip: 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. The boys are all friends, and the weekend should go smoothly. A horrifying visitor: It comes to them in the night. An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry. And whatever has made him sick . . . is contagious. A struggle to the death: And so it begins. An agonizing weekend in the wilderness. A harrowing struggle for survival. No possible escape from the elements, the infected . . . or one another. The incredible novel of friendship, horror, wilderness and survival by a modern master.