Rabid is a novel written by David Anne. It was first published in 1977.
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When John and Paula find a lovable stray dog on their holiday in France, they see smuggling it back home to bypass the quarantine laws purely as outwitting the tiresome long-arm of bureaucracy.
Yet, the dog proves to be rabid and by this one act a dark terror spreads inexorably across the countryside in an ever-widening circle.