After being horribly mistreated at a government animal research facility, two dogs, Snitter and Rowf, escape into the isolation and terror of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call ”the Tod,” the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment as well as the after-effects of the brutal experiments they have endured.  When the starving dogs attack some sheep, they are labeled ferocious man-eating monsters and every man’s hand is turned against them. When the news escapes that the dogs could be carriers of the bubonic plague, the army is called into the hunt.  This is Snitter and Rowf’s story, told by them as they try to find their way back to the homes from which they were abducted.  From the author of Watership Down.  Illustrated by A. Wainwright. Cover art by Martin White.