The troop

358 pages

English language

Published Feb. 11, 2014

ISBN:
978-1-4767-1771-5
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OCLC Number:
830352245

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4 stars (3 reviews)

Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip. This year, something is waiting in the darkness. Something wicked.... An intruder stumbles upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine....

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5 stars

I enjoy a good external fright from maniacal slayers of co-eds, outer space beasties, mutated fishpeople et al as much as anyone can, but as anyone who has squirmed through David Cronenberg’s earlier works (Rabid, The Brood, The Fly, Videodrome) can attest, true horror comes from within. And then invariably explodes outwards in a variety of gruesome ways. Nick Cutter knows this as well. And he’s not afraid to make you afraid. In fact, I’d hazard that he rather enjoys giving readers the willies, heebie-jeebies, and soiled underpants. If you weren’t at all worried that your body might one day rebel against your wishes (as our bodies are wont to do), The Troop should cause some anxiety. We may think we’re in control, but pretty much everything else is out to prove otherwise

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Subjects

  • Boy Scouts
  • Fiction