The Ruins

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 . . .From the Hardcover edition.