The original novel on which Sam Peckinpah's controversial movie Straw Dogs was based, and the inspiration behind a brand-new movie by Rod Lurie, starring Alexander Skarsgard and Kate Bosworth - due for release in September 2011. American professor George Magruder, his wife Louise and their daughter rent an old, isolated house known as Trencher's Farm in Cornwall, so George can finish writing his book. When George accidentally runs over a convicted child killer on the loose from a mental asylum, he confronts the brutal locals and sets in train a series of violent events that threaten his very survival and that of his family.
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Titan Books Ltd
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17 mm
Height
203 mm
Length
134 mm
Weight
227 gr
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Never has the primitivism of mankind been grinded on as gritty a whetstone of male egos as in this novel by Mr. Gordon. It's pungent, provocative and goes burrowing into the most dangerous device of all: the human mind. The ultimate guide to survival capturing the nuances of our baser instincts to give our feral times a timeless tinge.