"Nick Cutter" is a pseudonym for "an acclaimed author of novels and sort stories". PeI, peI, PEi, every combo you could think of. Prince Edward Island was mentioned a bunch of times (including as "PEI") and never does it have correct capitalization. If the book was meant to be sent out unedited, why? Why not at least do the most basic proofreading beforehand? How had the writer himself not corrected these errors before submitting it? Most the character names, lower case. If I wanted to type like him, it would take effort not to capitalize! How could anyone, let alone a writer, not use the most basic proper capitalization by default? (And this isn't a wacky ebook formatting issue, the multi-page legal blurb at the front of the book is fine.) Nine proper nouns out of ten start with a lower case. Every other sentence starts with a lower case letter. The author has only passing familiarity with his shift key. Maybe "uncorrected" was meant to tell us it was utterly unedited? The Troop is worse than a first draft of a book. This was offered as an "uncorrected reader's proof", but as far as I know, that means it might get minor edits based on advanced reader feedback. I'm about 5% into it, and I have to wonder if the typing was what scared King.
Not for the faint-hearted, but for the rest of us sick puppies, it's a perfect gift for a winter night." -STEPHEN KINGĪ book that scared Stephen King? This I had to read! "THE TROOP scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. I haven't accepted a book for review lately, but this one caught my eye. (Jan.Book provided free for review by Simon & Schuster. Agent: Kirby Kim, William Morris Endeavor. Cutter’s appeal to modern-day disquiet over the ethical lapses of the military-industrial complex will strike many as pro forma rather than based in any authentic outrage over abuses real or imagined. Competent prose makes up in part for stock characters-the nerd, the popular kid, the quiet psychotic. While the boys have many options, escape is not among them. Meanwhile, an alarmed military has quarantined Falstaff Island to protect the world from the evil released there. An act of charity toward Padgett, who carries a deadly contagion, turns out to be a big mistake that leaves the scouts with no choice but to rely on their limited tools and rudimentary survival skills. On Falstaff Island, off Prince Edward Island, a troop of boy scouts encounters Thomas Henry Padgett, aka “the Hungry Man,” a victim of military research gone terribly wrong. This predictable, carnage-filled thriller from the pseudonymous Cutter will appeal mainly to horror fans.
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