The Plague Dogs

Description

Two dogs escape from an experimental research lab in the Lake District, where they have been horribly tortured and mistreated in the name if science. As they run for their lives on the hard fells they attempt to survive wild and free. But the hunt in on

Richard Adams , the son of a country doctor, grew up in Berkshire and studied history at Worcester College, Oxford before and after the Second World War. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling and award-winning Watership Down , his first book (the illustrated edition of which was published by Oneworld Modern Classics, 2014). Two of his books, Watership Down and Shardik , were listed in the Sunday Times top 100 bestselling books of the last forty years. He lives in Hampshire, England with his wife, Elizabeth, to whom he has been married for sixty-five years

'If one book by Adams is to survive, I hope that it will be this' * Observer * 'Compulsively readable' * Guardian * 'Once again Adams champions animals against the excesses of man' * Financial Times *