Executives at Walters Cable are working on a plan to get rid of a large number of employees, primarily older employees with high salaries and even higher pension costs. As a forty-nine-year-old sales manager, Jack is just the type of employee they are looking to get rid of, and he is facing losing the only real job he has ever had. Rumors run through the company like wildfire, and everyone is feeling frightened and hopeless.

Until some of them, beginning with Jack Fallon, decide to fight back. Calling themselves "The Dinosaur Club," they begin using their own version of subversive office politics to hit back. A newsletter spreads information and rumors, odd things, such as gun catalogs, start appearing in the trash, toy dinosaurs appear on desks, and "Dinosaur Club" t-shirts debut at the office gym. As much fun as these tactics are, they are only the tip of the iceberg.

The dinosaurs have a secret weapon; a friend on the inside – Samantha Moore, a young attorney Jack is becoming romantically involved with. Samantha has seen the company plan, and after fighting with her conscience, decides to share the information. As Jack regains control of his personal life, he also begins to gain control of the situation at Walters Cable, giving the higher-ups something to really worry about when he finds evidence of nefarious deals going on within the company. The Dinosaur Club may just be more powerful than anyone could have imagined.

The Dinosaur Club is both funny and angry; often both simultaneously – a kind of grown-up's Revenge of the Nerds. Beginning the story as helpless underdogs, the members of the "club" come across as achingly real. Heffernan paints a bleak picture of the 1990's ruthless corporate world. Many readers will know first hand the situation these characters are caught in, and their clever scheming to defend themselves is enormously satisfying. Now we just need to find out where to get the T-shirt.

--Jeri Wright