Running Dog

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Running Dog is a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo. At its center is a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler, purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. The novel follows a journalist as she tries to penetrate a murky black market of wealthy erotic-art collectors in order to locate the film. The tale grows increasingly wild and violent as she closes in on this bizarre grail.

The book derives its title from a fictional "underground" magazine modeled on Rolling Stone. This publication is also featured in the novel Great Jones Street. The phrase "running dog" is a literal translation into English of the Chinese/Korean/Communist insult zou gou, meaning "lackey", first recorded in English in 1937.

References

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=r&p=20

http://wordsmith.org/words/running_dog.html

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