Download or read book The Siege of Trencher's Farm - Straw Dogs written by Gordon Williams and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original novel on which Sam Peckinpah's controversial movie Straw Dogs was based, and which has now been made into a brand-new movie by Rod Lurie, starring Alexander Skarsgård 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 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.