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The Ruins

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The Ruins is a 2006 horror novel by American author Scott Smith, set on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The book fits specifically into the survival horror genre, which is marked by people doing whatever it takes to conquer their environment and stay alive. The novel was released on July 18, 2006. A film adaptation of the novel was released in the United States and Canada on April 4, 2008. Plot summary Four American tourists — Eric, his girlfriend Stacy, her best friend and former roommate Amy, and Amy's boyfriend Jeff, a medical student — are vacationing in Mexico. They befriend a German tourist named Mathias, and a trio of Greeks who go by the Spanish nicknames Pablo, Juan, and Don Quixote. Jeff volunteers the group to accompany Mathias as he attempts to find his brother Henrich, who went missing after having followed a girl he'd met to an archaeological dig. As they leave the hotel, Pablo joins them, leaving a note and a map for Juan and Don Quixote.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Ruins: private in-stu open-air Local museum in Negros Occidental, P · 2008 film by Carter Smith

Overview

The Ruins is a 2006 horror novel by American author Scott Smith, set on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The book fits specifically into the survival horror genre, which is marked by people doing whatever it takes to conquer their environment and stay alive. The novel was released on July 18, 2006. A film adaptation of the novel was released in the United States and Canada on April 4, 2008. Plot summary Four American tourists — Eric, his girlfriend Stacy, her best friend and former roommate Amy, and Amy's boyfriend Jeff, a medical student — are vacationing in Mexico. They befriend a German tourist named Mathias, and a trio of Greeks who go by the Spanish nicknames Pablo, Juan, and Don Quixote. Jeff volunteers the group to accompany Mathias as he attempts to find his brother Henrich, who went missing after having followed a girl he'd met to an archaeological dig. As they leave the hotel, Pablo joins them, leaving a note and a map for Juan and Don Quixote.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).