The Ruins

Eerie terrifying and unputdownable The Ruins is Scott Smith's first novel since his acclaimed debut A Simple Plan earned rave reviews and stormed best seller lists. The Ruins follows two American couples enjoying a pleasant lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. 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.