A recent thriller from 2016, Carnage is pure Guy N. Smith and a great one to read any time of the year. While there are no supernatural elements, Smith takes a simple premise and shows what a maestro can do with it. In Carnage, a family that kept two baboons as pets are forced to release them into the wild, which at the time seemed like a humane thing to do. Certainly, the baboons would be better off in the Welsh wilderness than in some zoo. Forty years, later, however, it’s discovered those baboons not only survived, but bred, and now there’s a small group of hungry baboons on the loose that soon acquire a taste for flesh. The violence escalates quickly, and Smith makes baboons suddenly very scary creatures. In fact, baboons rarely attack humans but there are documented instances of this happening, which makes the book all the more frightening. This could happen, and humans are no match for hungry, flesh-eating baboons. The formulae here is about the same as Night of the Crabsand The Slime Beast, and Smith proves that he hasn’t lost his touch. A nifty, tight thriller, Carnage is the perfect book to take with you on vacation, especially if your visiting some remote wilderness region. And remember to bring along a gun, because even if you lock the cabin door, it won’t stop a flesh eating baboon.
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