I agree with it being similar to Lord of the Flies, but I would even throw in that it's also part John Carpenter's The Thing and with some elements of the 2008 screen adaptation of The Ruinssprinkled in , to some degree. If I were allowed only three words to describe Nick Cutter's The Troop, they would be, " Wow, just wow!" The book's blurb describes The Troop as part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later. No possible escape from the elements, the infected…or one another. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine.Īnd so it begins. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry-a man in unspeakable torment who exposes Tim and the boys to something far more frightening than any ghost story. An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. But for some reason, he can’t shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this year.
For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there-which makes Scoutmaster Tim’s job a little easier. There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school Ephraim and Max, also well liked and easygoing then there’s Newt the nerd and Shelley the odd duck. (Jan.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. Agent: Kirby Kim, William Morris Endeavor. Cutter’s appeal to modern-day disquiet over the ethical lapses of the military-industrial complex will strike many as pro forma rather than based in any authentic outrage over abuses real or imagined. Competent prose makes up in part for stock characters-the nerd, the popular kid, the quiet psychotic. While the boys have many options, escape is not among them. Meanwhile, an alarmed military has quarantined Falstaff Island to protect the world from the evil released there. An act of charity toward Padgett, who carries a deadly contagion, turns out to be a big mistake that leaves the scouts with no choice but to rely on their limited tools and rudimentary survival skills. On Falstaff Island, off Prince Edward Island, a troop of boy scouts encounters Thomas Henry Padgett, aka “the Hungry Man,” a victim of military research gone terribly wrong.
This predictable, carnage-filled thriller from the pseudonymous Cutter will appeal mainly to horror fans.
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