HE EAGERLY AWAITED NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF A SIMPLE PLAN

Eerie, terrifying, and unputdownable, The Ruins can be Scott Smith’s 1st book since his acclaimed debut A STRAIGHTFORWARD Plan earned rave reviews and stormed bestseller lists.

The Ruins follows two American lovers enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach vacation together in Mexico. With an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group — the youthful German, who, in search of a girl, has going for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological drill down.

This is what happens as soon as the searchers — getting into the wild interior — start to suspect that there surely is an insidious, horrific ‘additional’ included in this….