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The Troop Audio CD – Unabridged, Feb. 12 2019

by Nick Cutter (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 13,267 ratings
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It begins like a campfire story: Five boys and a grown-up went into the woods. It ends in madness and murder. And worse …

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-day camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story and 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. An inexplicable horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival that will pit the troop against the elements, the infected … and one another.

Part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later—and all-consuming—this tightly written, edge-of-your-seat thriller will take listeners deep into the heart of darkness and close to the edge of sanity.

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  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio
  4. Publication date
    Feb. 12 2019
  5. Dimensions
    14.73 x 2.79 x 13.97 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    150828394X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1508283942
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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"

About the Author

Nick Cutter is a pseudonym for an acclaimed author of novels and short stories. His true identity has been called “the worst-kept secret in Canada.”

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Feb. 12 2019
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Unabridged
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 150828394X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1508283942
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 227 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.73 x 2.79 x 13.97 cm
  • 鶹 Rank: #114 in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Action & Adventure
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars 13,267 ratings

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Nick Cutter

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Hello All,

It is I, Nicholas J Cutter Esq! I'm the writer of The Troop, The Deep, The Acolyte (May 2015), and the upcoming Little Heaven (2016, probs). I write horror and I love doing it. If the books sell, I'll keep writing them. If they don't, I'll go dig a ditch--not for the money, but because that's what I like to do when I'm not writing.

You can visit me at:

www.craigdavidson.net (that's the name of my alter ego)

Or check out my author page at:

http://authors.simonandschuster.ca/Nick-Cutter/408931263

Yrs most sincerely,

Nick.

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Customers find the content fantastic, addictive, and a great genre novel. They also appreciate the writing style, saying it's well-written, precise, and talented. Readers describe the plot as thrilling, satisfying, and divertissant. They have mixed opinions on the scariness, character development, and originality. Some find the characters super realized and believable, while others say they're generic and stereotyped. Opinions are mixed on the odor, with some finding it disgusting and others finding it gross.

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46 customers mention "Content"46 positive0 negative

Customers find the content fantastic, addictive, and a great genre novel. They say the story is good and the characters are believable. Readers also say it's a great read for anyone interested in horror.

"Great book!!!! Only not really scary..." Read more

"Excellent read. 👻..." Read more

"Wow what a good book this was, just couldn't put it down! Looking forward to more from Nick Cutter!" Read more

"Loved this book -- Don't get to grossed out, or disturbed, by much...." Read more

19 customers mention "Writing style"16 positive3 negative

Customers find the writing style precise and talented. They also appreciate the well-crafted scenes and solid novel. Readers also mention that anyone can write, but it takes real skill to creep under a reader.

"...Slow, boring. It's well-written, sure, but it wears off when everything is so generic and stereotyped." Read more

"Great writer" Read more

"...It's well written, it strikes just the right tone to get into your head and cause anxiety, and just built up really well into the conflict that I..." Read more

"A solid novel. I wanted more out of it, but I don't regret the time spent." Read more

14 customers mention "Plot"12 positive2 negative

Customers find the plot thrilling, satisfying, and interesting. They describe the adventure as incredible, divertissant, and suspenseful. Readers also mention the book is good for a horror fan.

"...Very similar to Stephen King's Dreamcatcher and always fun to read a book set in your home country." Read more

"Amazing book that really gives you the creeps for days. Hard to put down and hard to stop thinking about after finishing." Read more

"...The Troop has to be the most sensory stimulating book that I’ve read: sight, sound, smell, even taste and touch...." Read more

"This novel was graphically detailed and very distressing. Very good for a horror fan! Trigger warning, very graphic human and animal violence." Read more

32 customers mention "Scariness"16 positive16 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the scariness of the book. Some mention it's viscerally scary, horrifying, and freaks them out. Others say it's not overly spooky and nightmare-inducing.

"It's a good book and really well written. Not scary though...." Read more

"The Troop is a really disgusting book. That is a compliment...." Read more

"...Yeehaw. The Troop will gross you out and stay with you and freak you the HELL out. Nick Cutter pulls no punches in this nasty tale of body horror...." Read more

"...of The Stand, a taste of Lord of the Flies... Some scenes that were so specific and grisly that they were hard to read, but not at all &#..." Read more

8 customers mention "Character development"4 positive4 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the character development in the book. Some mention the characters are super realized and very believable, while others say the book is not character development but character confusion.

"...context and side information for you to realize - these characters are super realized and very believable, they could step off the page and bring..." Read more

"...ALL of the characters come across as predictable (for the most part) and are cardboard...." Read more

"...One villain (well, two), and a broad sampling of characters with very heroic, but real, traits...." Read more

"...Check! Stereotypical characters, including 'the annoying fat one', 'the brutish jock', and the 'silent psycho'? Check!..." Read more

6 customers mention "Originality"4 positive2 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the originality of the book. Some mention it takes a peculiar mind to create it, while others say the idea is good and the plot begins with simple ingenuity.

"...The plot begins with simple ingenuity: a troop of boy scouts are trapped on an island where something is going terribly wrong and they must battle..." Read more

"...Things just got uglier and uglier to the point I almost stopped reading...." Read more

"...book I’ve ever read, it is done better, more interestingly, and with better concepts...." Read more

"...The idea is good however, the characters are fleshed out and have their own voice. Personally, I prefer fast paced story so it was a miss for me." Read more

4 customers mention "Odor"2 positive2 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the odor of the book. Some mention they smell the rotting flesh, taste the blood in their mouth, and find it fantastically disgusting.

"Gross ... I wish I hadn't read it." Read more

"This book is chilling, disgusting, and made me want to throw up on more than one occasion...." Read more

"...to be the most sensory stimulating book that I’ve read: sight, sound, smell, even taste and touch...." Read more

"DISGUSTING!..." Read more

Book great, condition not so much
1 out of 5 stars
Book great, condition not so much
I found the book interesting but when I received it (as seen in the pics) the book wasn’t cut properly (during production I’m assuming) and I had to separate the pages by hand…..as a book lover it kills me to see my pages rip just so I can read 🤷‍♀️
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  • Richtor Everet
    5.0 out of 5 stars It creeped me out so much I had to step away lol
    Reviewed in Canada on April 24, 2024
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    I've been reading a lot of horror / thriller novels lately, it's my current hyperfixation. I've got a number about contagion that are really good, and the topic doesn't usually hit me very hard thanks to the zombie craze of the 2010s that desensitized me... But this book unsettles me so hard, I currently have to take a break and read a "lighter" book to recenter myself lol.

    There's only one book I never finished because it messed with my head so badly - Uzumaki by Itou Junji - but this is getting there very fast, and I mean that in a good way. It's well written, it strikes just the right tone to get into your head and cause anxiety, and just built up really well into the conflict that I physically felt the fear settle into me.

    Maybe it's the setting - I live in Canada and I love books that are set here. It feels more "close to home," and like it could actually happen. Maybe it's seeing an adult acting out of such deep fear that even kids can see it, and feel the need to start taking matters into their own hands. Maybe it's the mix of news articles and evidence peppered between the chapters to add just enough context and side information for you to realize - these characters are super realized and very believable, they could step off the page and bring their terror with them.

    As I mentioned, I haven't finished it, so maybe that will change (I read some of the reviews here), but I'm excited / scared to keep reading when I'm able to handle the next ten chapters.
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  • 鶹 Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the read
    Reviewed in Canada on September 13, 2024
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    A solid novel. I wanted more out of it, but I don't regret the time spent.
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  • Drew Rowsome
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Troop: horror from within
    Reviewed in Canada on November 3, 2015
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    The Troop is a really disgusting book. That is a compliment. There were places where I wanted to stop reading, for it to just go away, but I couldn't help myself: I had to know what was going to happen.
    The plot begins with simple ingenuity: a troop of boy scouts are trapped on an island where something is going terribly wrong and they must battle an unspeakable horror. And then it is ratcheted up: one of the scouts is a budding sadistic psychopath. Think Lord of the Flies meets The Thing meets World War Z meets I Am Legend meets Alien meets Hot Twink Boy Scout Measuring Contest or Scouting for Wood, with a reference to Anne of Green Gables to push it over the top.
    The combination is delicious, tense and, as I said, disgusting. The plight of the scouts is horrible and rendered in purple but precise prose that reveals author Nick Cutter's day job as literary writer Craig Davidson (though who gets to decide that definition is beyond me). There are pages - particularly concerning a monkey and a kitten in my case - that made me want to shield my eyes. There will be different pages for other people with individual sensibilities: there are lots of horrors and gollops of gore to choose from.
    There is a thread of homoeroticism that runs throughout The Troop that is just more than subliminal. It is, alas, also confused, as if Cutter was - unbelievably considering what he does splay on the pages - afraid to go there. The only expressed sexuality is arousal by extreme sadism and the phallic nature of the worms give a disturbing contradiction to what Cutter seems to be trying to express. He is far more successful in drawing a direct but subtle line between the callousness of governments and power and the mind of a nascent serial killer. It all comes to fruition with a masterfully done macguffin built into the very structure that is emotionally devastating.
    But most intriguing is Cutter's repeated theory that there is an innocence in childhood that allows one to withstand terror because one can believe in the unbelievable. He posits that as we reach adulthood we are no longer able to cope with horror or tragedy because we no longer have the ability to imagine it could happen.
    It is an idea that resonates, gives a melancholy tinge and speaks to Cutter's intentions with what is already a very efficient and great genre novel, and makes the scouts' descent into adulthood and horror all the more affecting and brutal. Any horror fan child, or adult, will enjoy The Troop.
    Full review at: http://drewrowsome.blogspot.ca/2015/09/the-troop.html
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  • Kindle Customer
    3.0 out of 5 stars Great Start - Sad Finish
    Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2023
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    This is Stephan King territory if he'd written 'Lord of the Flies' during a REALLY bad acid trip. Starts out great with a brilliant set-up. What's not to like about young boys coming of age, adults out of the picture, a budding sociopath, a mad scientist and parasitic worms? Yeehaa! The pacing, character development, concept and execution was spot-on....until it wasn't. Things just got uglier and uglier to the point I almost stopped reading. Some things are extreme and repulsive to the point that one feels like taking a shower after reading. The worst part? No pay-off for wading through the muck to the end....it just gets bleaker
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  • Becky L.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great horror read - Beware the animal cruelty
    Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2024
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    Fantastic read and excellent depiction of body horror. I couldn’t believe some of the things I was reading. Beware that the book does involve numerous instances of animal cruelty. I had to quickly read through those parts but I was still very enveloped in the book.
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  • Valdemar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sjuk, grotesk, illamående – lockande.
    Reviewed in Sweden on May 19, 2024
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    The Troop är galet bra. Trots dess sjuka scener som ibland känns onödigt groteska är den omöjlig att sluta läsa. Psykopatkaraktären Shelley är involverad i de absolut värsta, och han är verkligen den som höjer boken flera nivåer. Fantastisk.
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  • Carole.E
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent roman
    Reviewed in France on September 5, 2021
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    A lire en anglais pour se perfectionner ou en français pour le plaisir
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  • Hayley McLean
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!
    Reviewed in Australia on July 10, 2025
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    Riveting book! I really enjoyed this! Scary enough, thought provoking and great development of the story and characters.
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  • 鶹 Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Throw the book or throw up! Your choice
    Reviewed in India on February 23, 2025
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    The book quality was good and the story is amazing but really gruesome. The book might make you want to throw up or throw the book.
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  • Rachel Bridgeman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Be prepared takes on a whole new meaning...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2020
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    ‘The Troop’ was published in 2014 by Headline, and is currently tapping it’s little feet, waiting to be turned into a box office behemoth. It’s a full on , gory, boy horror of a novel told in two narrative streams-one is what happened on the island, the other is the aftermath told in epistolary format, through newspapers, psychiatric reports and court documents.

    I am not sure why it has taken me so long to read this book, which centers on a group of scouts who swiftly find themselves havign to grow up and take charge after a mysterious stranger lands in their encampment. As the adults fall foul to a monster which devours them from the inside out,they have harsh and mature decisions to make in this twisted take on a creature feature story.

    It’s a tale of science gone wrong a la ‘Frankenstein’,-the whole notion of ‘just because we can , doesn’t mean we should’ takes on a whole new meaning in the way that a government created parasite is accidentally set loose.

    Stomach churning (no pun intended) scenes pepper the story of these boys who are the last bastion between them and us. You are hereby warned not to read this if you are faint of heart or queasy of stomach. The themes of being consumed could be seen as metaphorical, as well as literal body horror as the old seek to con sume the strength and flesh of the young, whilst the boys , rushing to grow up are thrust into a situation they are not emotionally euqipped to deal with.

    This is borne out in the psychiatric reports as well as the hysterical media headlines which in a panic driven state seek not only to make money from a scandalous trip gone wrong, but also trying to make some kind of sense of the survivors tales.

    Is the fate of the world left in the hands of 14 year old boys?

    In this case I would absolutely award them the following badges-

    Dismemberment
    Butchery
    Leadership Skills
    Apocalypse Survival
    Anatomy and Physiology
    It’s a great companion piece to novels like ‘The Rats’, and is a proper ‘old school’ horror of the kind that was produced in the early 80’s. Be warned, and take a Swiss Army knife with you as well as at least one flare if you fancy an outward bound trip with these lads and remember, every good scout is ‘always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty’
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