The Birdcatcher: 30th Anniversary Revisit — Walter J. Schenck / Walter Joseph Schenck Jr.

“In spite of being an intense, strong, and graphically violent book, The Birdcatcher is filled with some of the extraordinary beautiful writing I have ever read. Your book is a brilliant existential masterpiece that accurately portrays the unrelenting, extremely realistic, brutal renderings of war couple with some of the most profound, original thinking on religion and redemption I ever encountered in literature.” -Rachel Stephenson, proofreader and literary critic The year is 1972, a time when the world witnessed the most intense and horrific fighting of the entire campaign against North Vietnam. Without compromise, The Birdcatcher, a religious-thriller, reveals how men lost their lives as one terrible battle after another decimated the forces on the ground and in the air above Vietnam while exploring the questions of man's relationship with God and with each other. It was a time of unanswerable questions for all: What kind of men endure under impossible conditions? What do they think and feel when there is no guarantee of tomorrow? What causes a hero to fall? What allows a villain to survive? “Mr. Schenck is a very talented and intelligent. The best of his written work (in my short story writing class) was a breathtakingly good story �" a strong, violent, moving tale set in Vietnam. . . .a visionary.”-Professor David Carkeet “Your work is often of astonishing brilliance with some of the most powerful writing I've ever seen in a writer. I would expect you to become a writer of serious note. I am deeply impressed by your book.” -1st Fccj Intelligent Eye Critique “Powerful writing! Excellent action writing! Amazing talent.” -2nd Fccj Intelligent Eye Critique