Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974. The story features American journalist John Converse, a Vietnam correspondent during the war, Merchant Marine sailor Ray Hicks, Converse's wife Marge, and their involvement in a heroin deal gone bad. It shared the 1975 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams (split award).[1][2] and it was named by TIME magazine one of the 100 best English-language novels, 1923 to 2005.[3]

The book was adapted as a film, Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), starring Nick Nolte.