The Plague Dogs, Richard Adams
The Plague Dogs, Richard Adams
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The Plague Dogs

Author: Richard Adams

Narrator: Ralph Cosham

Unabridged: 15 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2011

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf. After being horribly mistreated at a government animalresearch facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolationand terrorof the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call the tod, the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the starving dogs attack some sheep, they are labeled ferocious maneating monsters, setting off a great dog hunt that is later intensified by the fear that the dogs could be carriers of the bubonic plague.

About Richard Adams

Richard Adams (1920–2016) wrote many novels and short stories, including Watership Down and Shardik. Watership Down hit the top of the New York Times bestseller list, where it stayed for eight months, eventually becoming Penguin Books’ all-time bestseller. He grew up in Berkshire, England, the son of a country doctor. After an education at Oxford, he spent six years in the army and then went into the civil service. The success of Watership Down allowed him to leave that work and write full time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Libbie Hawker on November 09, 2011

I hated this book. I will never read it again, ever, as long as I live. And it absolutely deserves five stars. The Plague Dogs is one of the most visceral, wrenching, emotional reads you'll ever find. It follows the fortunes of two dogs, Snitter and Rowf, who escape from a medical testing lab. In an......more

Goodreads review by Bookeater on January 16, 2011

I have to disagree with the reviewer who says this is not realistic. I worked in a government lab in California only 2 years ago. Things have *not* changed. There are simply more organizations and welfare groups that have no actual say in day to day operations of labs. It's up to researchers and wor......more

Goodreads review by Chris on February 09, 2008

I really enjoy Richard Adams. Part of it is his writing - he has an excellent style and a definite gift for description. When he talks about a place, it is immediately obvious that he's actually been there. He uses multiple senses to tell you what a place looks, sounds and smells like, the feeling o......more

Goodreads review by Mindi on July 07, 2017

If you have known me for any period time, you probably know that Watership Down is my all time favorite novel. So, you may be surprised to learn that I have just now read The Plague Dogs. That's odd, right? You would think I would be practically falling over myself to read this, and I did try to, ye......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on February 12, 2015

2015 Reading Challenge--week 7: Nonhuman characters. Well, that was quite an adventure! Not as well done as Adams' more popular classic, Watership Down, perhaps but still well worth reading. Two badly-treated dogs, Rowlf and Snitter, escape from Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental lab (A.R.......more

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