dogs of war
Open main menu Search The Dogs of War (novel) Language Watch Edit This article is about the novel. For other uses of The Dogs of War , see The Dogs of War (disambiguation) . The Dogs of War (1974) is a war novel by Frederick Forsyth featuring a small group of European mercenary soldiers hired by a British industrialist to depose the government of the fictional African country of Zangaro. The story details a geologist's mineral discovery, and the preparations for the attack: soldier recruitment, training, reconnaissance, and the logistics of the coup d'Ć©tat (buying weapons, transport, payment). Like most of Forsyth's work, the novel is more about the protagonists' occupational tradecraft than their characters. The source of the title, The Dogs of War , is Act III, scene 1, line 270 of Julius Caesar (1599), by William Shakespeare : Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war . The Dogs of War First edition (UK) Author Frederick Forsyth Cover artist