"The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down.
This is old-school horror at its best." --Stephen King
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.
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.
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 one another.
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.
