The Dinosaur Club A Novel Author:William Heffernan What The First Wives Club did for divorce, The Dinosaur Club does for downsizing. Both a penetrating look at today's business world and a devastating assessment of corporate greed, The Dinosaur Club is an often hilarious page-turner. In a five-day span Jack Fallon learns that his wife of 24 years is dumping him and that the ... more »company he's worked for all his life is about to do the same. The honchos at Waters Cable decide to implement a "workforce imbalance correction," which includes canning Jack and his coworkers, all of whom are in the 50/50 class - 50 years old, making $50,000 or more. But instead of accepting their fate, Jack and the other "dinosaurs" join forces and fight back. With unexpected twists and turns, The Dinosaur Club will have readers cheering by novel's end. Hollywood is cheering too. Warner Bros. paid $1 million for the right to turn The Dinosaur Club into a major motion picture.« less