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  • The Troop

  • By: Nick Cutter
  • Narrated by: Corey Brill
  • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (618 ratings)

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The Troop

By: Nick Cutter
Narrated by: Corey Brill
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Summary

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 bonfre. The boys are a tight-knit crew. 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. For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there - which makes Scoutmaster Tim’s job a little easier. But for some reason, he can’t shake the feeling that something strange is in the air this year. Something waiting in the darkness. Something wicked . . .

It comes to them in the night. An unexpected intruder, stumbling upon their campsite like a wild animal. 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. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear. One by one, the boys will do things no person could ever imagine.

And so it begins. An agonizing weekend in the wilderness. A harrowing struggle for survival. No possible escape from the elements, the infected . . . or one another.

©2013 Nick Cutter (P)2014 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Classic horror story

This story had a great old school horror feel to it. Not for the squeamish! Loved the story, enjoyed the narration too.

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Graphic horror if you like that kinda thing

The story was well paced throughout. Characters were well formed and all added value. The narrator however was so monotone - almost like a bad AI reading a script. I prefer voice actors to drab readers.
But, if you can get past that, the story is good, gruesome and graphic.

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So Brilliant

I am completely pissed off that this book has come to an end. What the hell do I do now?!!!!

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Utterly disgusting! I loved it!

Fantastic slice of body horror, part Stand By Me and part The Thing. Couldn’t stop listening and burned through the whole book in a day.

I’m just so very hungry... for more...

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A body horror survival story

Best reader ever. Oh and the book was pretty good as well. If you like body horror, you are definitely going to like this book.

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Woah

I decided to give this novel (which I'd never heard of) a try as master of horror, Stephen King, called it terrifying. Stephen King was right.

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great book

got into the story very well.
some parts of the book actually made my toes curl
very good pace would highly recommend

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Great

Far more heart in this story than I expected. Not just shock and gory. Like Stand By Me but with more gore.

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Squirm

Loved it. Endearing, heartbreaking, creepy, terrifying and melancholic.

Maybe avoid eating while you listen though.

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Unexpectedly drew me in.

Not my usual read but found myself engrossed in the storyline and characters. Excellent narration.

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