The Siege of Trencher's Farm - Straw Dogs

About this book

The original novel on which Sam Peckinpahs controversial movie Straw Dogs was based and the inspiration behind a brand-new movie by Rod Lurie starring Alexander Skarsgrd 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 Trenchers 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.