Pigeon Conspiracy

[DOVEScot]

LONDON - Writer Andrew Wood has issued a book titled The Pigeon Conspiracy via literary agency nooza.com and is seeking the attention of mainstream publishers for its publication to a wider market. The book, a novel, chronicles the events of the Pigeon Conspiracy from the point of view of a London-based web developer called Ant Scott. Experts have questioned whether the novel is pure fiction, or if its insights could redefine our understanding of the Pigeon Conspiracy.

 

"Does Wood know something the rest of us don't?" asks PigeonConspiracy.com analyst Patrick Bower. "He has constructed a story inside the fervour and boundaries of the Pigeon Conspiracy as we know it, but introduces a third act that has some merit as a far-fetched but feasible answer to the whole thing."

 

The novel's main characters, a group of twenty-something friends living and working in London, are asking themselves the familiar questions of their generation (coined "Generation X++" by Wood) - Why am I living here? What's the point of work? What am I supposed to do with my life? They live a life made easy by wealth, PlayStation games, restaurants and clever coffee, but their world is thrown into a spin by the Pigeon Conspiracy. Wood casts them as members of Richard Pierson's alpha group and lets things go from there. Each character reacts to the Pigeon Conspiracy differently, with all of them eventually becoming members of the Pigeon Resistance or PAPA. The story climaxes on P-Day (International Pigeon Day), when a dramatic solution to the entire Pigeon Conspiracy is proposed.

 

"I felt it was important to capture this time," said Wood when approached by PigeonConspiracy.com. "The events that have taken place, the murder of pigeons, all the stuff on the net, all of this isn't going to last. Things like this are quickly lost, and the Internet doesn't remember. We remember what the press want us to. I didn't want, ten years down the line, for the whole pigeon thing to be nothing more than a 'this day ten years ago' feature in the morning paper or a short documentary of the same old footage of Pigeon Resistance rallies. The Pigeon Conspiracy has touched millions of people around the world in different ways, human ways. I guess I just wanted to capture that. That's what this book is, a record of how people lived and felt."

 

When pressed on the revelatory third act, though, Wood gave away little. "I don't think anyone has thought about the Pigeon Conspiracy rationally yet," he said. "I'm not trying to say I have all the answers - decide that for yourself. What I am saying is that people take things at face value, prompted by the incessant media, the papers, TV, the web, and polarise their opinions one way or the other. The truth is often right in front of all of us, but so few spot it."