The Ruins

Eerie terrifying unputdownableScott Smiths first novel since his best-selling A Simple Plan (Simply the best suspense novel of this yearhell of the 1990sStephen King). The Ruins follows two American couples just out of college enjoying a pleasant lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as on an impulse they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their groupthe young German who in pursuit of a girl has headed for the remote Mayan ruins site of a fabled archeological dig. This is what happens from the moment the searchersmoving into the wild interiorbegin to suspect that there is an insidious horrific other among them . . .