The acclaimed national bestseller that is "old-school horror at its
best" (Stephen King) follows a scout troop as it is unexpectedly caught
up in an isolating and utterly terrifying fight for their lives.
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.