The man falls unconscious from their scuffle. Tim manages to push the man back onto a sofa, remarking that he felt a 'squirm' from within the man's belly. Tim attempts to hail help on the radio when he is set upon by the stranger, who, in his flailing, manages to break the radio and vomit some kind of sludge onto Tim. Tim notes that the state of the stranger is almost impossible and requires heavy medical intervention to fix. After deliberating, Tim allows the man to rest on the couch inside for the night, but not before telling the boys to stay in their room. The stranger tells Tim that he needs help and is ravenously hungry. Not expecting visitors for another two days, Riggs is wary of the stranger, who, upon inspection, is inhumanly malnourished but otherwise non-threatening. On the first evening of the trip, Tim notices a boat arriving on the island. However, he does bring along a radio because there had been warnings of a potential storm. The troop consists of Scoutmaster Tim Riggs (a middle-aged man and the town physician), Max (a mild mannered boy and best friend of Ephraim), Ephraim (nicknamed Eef, a boy prone to violent outbursts), Newt (a quiet, 'nerdy' boy who is quite intelligent), Kent (a bold and tenacious boy prone to forcing his leadership among others), and Shelley (a deeply disturbed psychopathic boy).ĭetermined to simulate a true-to-life remote island scenario, Tim makes sure to remove any form of communication to the mainland. The Troop follows the story of five teenage boys and their Scoutmaster as they spend a weekend away on Falstaff Island, a remote island a short distance away from the town where they all live.

The novel follows a troop of Boy Scouts who must deal with not only the threats posed by killer tapeworms, but also the homicidal and sociopathic tendencies of one of their own. The following year, it won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing. The novel was released in English in hardback, e-book, and audiobook on Februthrough Gallery Books. The Troop is a 2014 horror novel written by Canadian author Craig Davidson under the pen name Nick Cutter.

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