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The Ruins

by Scott Smith

A vacation turns toward jungle horror

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A vacation turns toward jungle horror

A search for a missing traveler draws two young couples away from their Mexican vacation and to an ancient ruins site. There, the group encounters a menacing presence, shifting the trip’s social pleasures into a struggle against an unfamiliar threat. The setup brings together vacation drama, a remote jungle setting, and supernatural-leaning horror, with the ruins serving as the point where the search takes a frightening turn.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Horror readers interested in a group of friends facing danger in an isolated setting
  • Readers drawn to stories that turn a vacation into a search for a missing person
  • Readers interested in horror set around ancient ruins and a threatening presence

Themes

IsolationFriendship under pressureDanger in unfamiliar placesVacation turned ordeal

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture!

Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation--sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there.

"The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches." --Entertainment Weekly

"Smith's nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn't for the faint of heart." --New York Post

"A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again." --USA Today
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