The Ruins
By Scott Smith
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Ruins is a 2006 horror novel by Scott Smith, whose first novel, A Simple Plan, became a 1998 film. Smith wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film adaptation of The Ruins. Four American friends on vacation in Mexico join a German tourist searching for his brother at an archaeological dig in the jungle. On a remote hilltop covered in vines, Mayan villagers surround them and refuse to let them leave. Trapped, they discover that the plant growing over the ruins is alive and hostile.
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- Stephen King: “Americans caught in an escalating nightmare on a Mexican hilltop in the best horror novel of the new century.”