The Troop - Nick Cutter

A normal camping trip: Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip, a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. The boys are all friends, and the weekend should go smoothly. A horrifying visitor: It comes to them in the night.An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry. And whatever has made him sick . . . is contagious.A struggle to the death: And so it begins. An agonizing weekend in the wilderness. A harrowing struggle for survival.No possible escape from the elements, the infected . . .or one another. The incredible novel of friendship, horror, wilderness and survival by a modern master.