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Eerie, terrifying, unputdownable - Scott Smiths 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 . . .
