The Ruins
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552152709
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $27.99

The Ruins

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The eerie, unputdownable thriller featuring two Americans couples exploring ancient Mayan ruins who come to find something 'other' among them...

'Superior horror literature' New York Times
'A compelling set-up and provocative premise' Kirkus
'There's no let-up, not so much as a chapter-break where you can catch your breath' Stephen King
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Craving an adventure to wake them from their lethargic Mexican holiday before they return home, four friends set off in search of one of their own who has travelled to the interior to investigate an archaeological dig in the Mayan ruins.

After a long journey into the jungle, the group come across a partly camouflaged trail and a captivating hillside covered with red flowers. Lured by these, the group move closer until they happen across a gun-toting Mayan horseman who orders them away. In the midst of the confrontation, one of the group steps inadvertently backwards into the flowering vine. And at that moment their world changes for ever...
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552152709
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Scott Smith

Scott Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and now lives in New Orleans. After studying at Dartmouth College and Columbia University in New York, he took up writing full time. A Simple Plan is his first novel.

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Praise for The Ruins

Aficionados of the horror-suspense genre can start breathing again, but only for a minute. Author Scott Smith has returned with a new shocker ....The action is swift and the suspense is positively unflinching ...Smith's nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.

New York Post

A classic horror story, told with mounting detail. Smith spins it out relentlessly, piling chill on chill on chill ....what happens, and needless to say it's not good, is something readers will read page after flapping page to discover.

Daily News

Please, please let this be the most disturbing novel of the year .....Smith writes with psychological acuity and real beauty, yet he doesn't pull any punches.

Time

Bloodcurdlingly horrific ... It's the contract between the familiar and the unspeakable that makes this book so harrowing.

New York Times

A tour de force of terror, a novel that seduces, shocks and dares you to keep reading. There's a timeless fable at work here, one that prompts thoughts of Heart of Darkness

Washington Post

It's been more than a decade since Smith's impressive debut, A Simple Plan. The wait has been worth it, with this tense, dense oppressive thriller taking the reader into new dimensions of fear ... Every time you think the book has hit a high in terror, it somehow gets more unbearable.

Guardian

Smith intends to scare the bejabbers out of you, and succeeds .... Does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches in 1975.

Stephen King

The suspense novel of the year. This is compulsive reading. Scott Smith sets out to frighten and he succeeds brilliantly with this harrowing psychological chiller.

Sunday Telegraph