![]() Then there is Shelley, a creepily quiet loner whose interests are secretly touching girls’ hair, being hidden and unnoticed, torturing animals – and eventually, people. ![]() The alpha male leader is Kent, a brutish jock who dominates the others through fear and strength – and through the fact that his dad is the chief of police. The troop consists of five fourteen-year-old boys. ![]() At the end of the summer, the group goes on its annual camping trip to the uninhabited and tiny Falstaff Island, just off the coast of PEI. Tim Riggs is a small-town doctor in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, who spends his weekends leading a small troop of scouts. Cutter lingers on descriptions of viscera and uses all the things that can go wrong with the human body to ratchet up a fairly straightforward plot into grisly territory. Intercutting between events on an island where a small group of scouts is menaced by a science experiment run amok and outside news footage, diary pages, and interviews, the novel lands on the blood and gore side of the horror genre. In 2014, author Craig Davidson published his young adult horror novel The Troop under the pseudonym Nick Cutter. ![]()
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