Fluke is a novel by British novelist James Herbert. First published in 1977, it concerns a dog named Fluke.
Plot The novel starts with the birth of Fluke, a dog who soon realizes that he used to be a man. The book then follows Fluke's efforts to find out what happened to him and why he is a dog. Soon he starts to remember bits of his previous life and remembers he had a wife and daughter, and he works to reunite with his family. Along the way, he makes friends with a red dog named Rumbo who started life as a human, like Fluke. Rumbo is killed when a car in a scrap yard the dogs live in falls on him. Towards the end of Fluke Rumbo comes back as a red squirrel and later appears in the James Herbert novels The Magic Cottage and Once.
Adaptations in other media Fluke was adapted into a film in 1995, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew Modine.Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide 2014 Samuel L. Jackson provides the voice of Fluke's dog friend, Rumbo. Based on James Herbert's bestselling novel
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