“The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t place it down. That is old-school horror at its greatest.” -Stephen King

This “grim microcosm of terror and desperation haunting” (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) follows a scout troop on a terrifying fight for survival if they come across a mysterious-and deadly-stranger in the Canadian wilderness.

Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs network marketing leads a troop of males in to the Canadian wilderness for the weekend camping trip-a on the subject of The Troop custom simply because comforting and reliable mainly because an excellent ghost tale around a roaring bonfire. However when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite-shockingly slim, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry-Tim as well as the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of the bioengineered problem. A horror that spreads faster than dread. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the contaminated…or one another.

Part Lord from the Flies, component 28 Times Later-and all-consuming-this firmly created, edge-of-your-seat thriller goes deep in to the center of darkness, where dread feeds on sanity…and terror hungers for more.