The Birdcatcher

Christopher Stone, a middle-aged burnt out insurance adjuster still working at the end of the twentieth century, starts one more job at one more company, unaware that this one is going to be very different. Alan Conrad's novel The Birdcatcher, isn't just an insider's look at the personal injury claims business and an indictment of the superficiality, dishonesty and heartlessness that have taken such control of western civilization. It's also a defiant refusal to accept that life has to be that way, and a story full of surprises - unexpected romance, unforeseen danger, and insights unlike any met by readers before. For it's also a declaration of independence on behalf of all those who are shy and solitary by nature. Anyone like that who has trouble 'fitting in' and believes that this is too deeply a part of who they are for any change to be possible, who wonders why they're that way and longs to know the answer, will not be disappointed by this book