@article{319254, author = {Smith, Scott,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/319254}, title = {The ruins : a novel /}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,}, abstract = {Two American couples, just out of college, enjoy a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group--the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled archeological dig. Then the searchers--moving into the wild interior--begin to suspect that there is an insidious, horrific "other" among them...--From publisher description.}, recid = {319254}, pages = {319 p. ;}, address = {New York :}, year = {2006}, }