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The Ruins by Scott Smith

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The Ruins, July 2006
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THE RUINS
By: Scott Smith


Author of A SIMPLE PLAN

Knopf
July 2006
336 pages
ISBN: 1400043875
Hardcover
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Suspense | Thriller Psychological

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 groupβ€”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 searchersβ€”moving into the wild interiorβ€”begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific "other" among them . . .

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Good Morning America - July 19, 2006