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New York: The Viking Press, 1974. Publishers original red boards with silver lettering on black cloth spine. Wear to lower corner front board. Fading to bottom of spine Dustwrapper: unclipped, general shelf wear to extremities and sunned spine, now protected in Brodart. Black endpapers, no inscriptions. 408pp. light foxing to untrimmed page edges otherwise clean and bright in firm binding. The Dogs of War is a 1974 novel by Frederick Forsyth which follows a company of European mercenary soldiers who are hired by a British industrialist to overthrow the government of a fictitious African nation called Zangaro. A film of the same name was released in 1981, based on the novel and directed by John Irvin. The central characters, like the title character in Forsyth's earlier work The Day of the Jackal, are professional killers: ruthless, violent men who are 'heroes' only in the loosest sense of the word (anti-heroes). Carlo Alfred Thomas 'Cat' Shannon, the Irish commander of the mercenary group, is the sole exception to this pattern. The novel follows, in detail, the preparations for the final attack: recruitment, training, reconnaissance, and the acquisition of weapons. Like most of Forsyth's work, The Dogs of War is more about craft than about character.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.