{"product_id":"2026200016252-secondhand-the-plague-dogs","title":"The Plague Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the celebrated author of Watership Down comes a harrowing and morally urgent novel that plunges readers into the desperate flight of two dogs — Snitter, a small terrier marked by a cruel surgical scar, and Rowf, a large black Labrador broken by repeated drowning experiments — who escape from a government animal research facility in the English Lake District and find themselves hunted across a breathtaking but unforgiving wilderness. The Plague Dogs chronicles their struggle for survival in a world that alternates between indifferent beauty and calculated cruelty, as rumours spread that the escapees may carry a deadly plague, transforming two frightened animals into a national emergency.\n\nRichard Adams constructs a savage indictment of animal experimentation, wielding his gift for vivid landscape prose and richly imagined animal consciousness to devastating emotional effect. The novel argues, with unflinching conviction, that the capacity for suffering demands moral consideration — regardless of species — and it does so through characters whose loyalty, fear, and bewilderment are rendered with extraordinary tenderness. Sharply satirical passages skewer media sensationalism, bureaucratic cowardice, and human self-interest, while the dogs themselves remain achingly, heartbreakingly real. What begins as an escape story quietly becomes a reckoning — and its final pages pose a question that will not easily leave the reader's mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342774149339,"sku":"2026200016252-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8d3bb53b-e23d-4e5b-82cb-bae04cd8ab8d.png?v=1790049107","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016252-secondhand-the-plague-dogs","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}