The Ruins

ISBN: 1400043875

Title: The Ruins

Author: Scott Smith

KDL Description:

In Cancâun, Mexico, for a peaceful vacation, a group of tourists sets off in search of one of their group who disappeared during an excursion to some nearby Mayan ruins, only to come face to face with an insidious evil that threatens their lives.

Amazon Description:

Eerie, terrifying, unputdownable — Scott Smith’s first novel since his best-selling A Simple Plan (“Simply the best suspense novel of this year — hell, of the 1990s” — Stephen King). The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as, on an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group — the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig.

This is what happens from the moment the searchers — moving into the wild interior — begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific “other” among them . . .