“Adams takes us to places where no author has taken us.”
“A compelling tale of emotional force and high suspense … gripping all the way.”
“Adams writes brilliantly about animals…. When these dogs are on the move, they compel us to follow, trotting along the narrative path on all the legs we have.”
“Excellent.”
“Better and more powerful than Watership Down, it should solidly establish Adams as one of the major English novelists of our time.”
“The genuine and moving feeling for animals that dominated Watership Down emerges here in intense dramatic form. Adams engenders such compassion, such desperate, urgent sympathy for ‘the plague dogs,’ that the reader yearns for a happy ending.”