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The Ruins
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552152709
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Ruins

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A 'decidedly organic nightmare' (Gillian Flynn) featuring two American couples exploring ancient Mayan ruins who come to find something sinister among them...

🌿'Superior horror literature' New York Times
🌹'A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation again' USA Today
🌿'There's no let-up, not so much as a chapter-break where you can catch your breath' Stephen King
🌹'Smith has tapped into our collective fear that nature is finally battling back and given us a decidedly organic nightmare' Gillian Flynn
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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 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 the lush scenery, the group moves 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...

🌿 Readers are raving about THE RUINS 🌿

🌹'A masterclass on delivering a hair-raising experience'
🌹'Awesome, gruesome, classic horror'
🌹'The best Stephen King novel that Stephen King never wrote'
🌹'A masterpiece of the genre'
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780552152709
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Scott Smith

SCOTT SMITH is the chief motivation officer of MotivationToMove.com and the host of the Daily Boost podcast, which—with over 50 million downloads—is one of the top 500 podcasts globally.
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Praise for The Ruins

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

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

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

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

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

New York Times

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

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

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