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The Troop

By: Nick Cutter
Narrated by: Corey Brill
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 “The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.” —Stephen King

Lord of the Flies meets 28 Days Later in this “grim microcosm of terror and desperation haunting” (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) following a scout troop on a terrifying fight for survival when they come across a mysterious—and deadly—stranger in the Canadian wilderness.

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. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite—shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry—Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horrifying contagion that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or one another.

Part parasitic horror, part survival thriller—and all-consuming—this tightly written, edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you deep into the heart of darkness, where fear feeds on sanity…and terror hungers for more. Genetic Engineering Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Gory Horror
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The performance of this text is superb and really brought it home for me; a subtle emotionality that I found gripping.

The book is gross in a good way and I found I had to take breaks regularly, especially during horrific sequences that weren’t even necessarily to do with the horror aspect of the story.

Satisfying in a way that kept me wanting more. I love the closed environment that the story was set in (on an island); a bottle piece with a wide neck. Took a wee while to keep track of the characters but ultimately grew to understand them as unique from each other. Just don’t pick favourites…

En(gross)ing

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"Lord of the flies" meets Stephen King's "Thinner". Fantastic and well written. Gruesome and thoroughly engaging.

Fantastic

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The troop was an incredible & often uncomfortable read. It’s story leaves you guessing what for & what’s next
I highly recommend listening/ reading to the Troop & am looking forward to reading more from Nick Cutters

One of the best books I’ve read this year

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Has everything you’d expect in a horror book. Only a couple of the kids were particularly likeable so felt no connection when the dying began. Definitely hard to put down, needed to see how it ended.

Great story

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Be warned: Don't listen to this while you're eating.

Nick Cutter presents us with a modern-day Lord of the Flies. With a balls-to-the-wall circus of gore and viscera flung at you until the very end. And while it definitely fits well into the its label of horror, it doesn't transcend it; unlike the more heavy hitters in the genre. But Cutter certainly does know horror well. His descriptions of gore and even retelling of simple memories, are twisted into something macabre; inciting squeamish disgust in listeners. At times, Cutter uses too heavy a hand with the memories. The plot scarcely moves forward before one of the boys remember something gross in their childhood and it becomes almost rhythmic, and listeners fall into a pattern. The characters themselves are flawed, though quite one dimensional. The boys all fulfill a stereotype except for Max, whom is so vaguely constructed that he would be utterly forgettable, if Cutter didn't have big plans for him in the plot.

But perhaps this reception of the boys is due to the narration, which is monotone at best. And downright lazy at worst. Corey Brill reads the novel like he's never read it before. Every time he reaches the end of a chapter, usually a time for narrators to construct some sort of distinct tone, he make it an anticlimax. So much so that listeners can almost believe he is mid sentence, before the next chapter starts. So it's no surprise then that his dialogue lands flat. And while his monotone is a compliment to the gore in the novel, it feels more like a scientist droning about his research, than an actual horror novel.

A modern Lord of the Flies

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