The Troop

The Troop

<b>WINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING</b><br> €œ<i>The Troop </i>scared the hell out of me, and I couldn€t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.€ €"Stephen King<br><br>Once a 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. 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. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected€¦or each other. Part <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, part <i>28 Days Later</i>€"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.