Former U.S. President Bill Clinton recently told over 7000 people in an Edmonton audience in March 2006 that this is the novel he was reading...   

       Will Cupchik, author

 A novel of political suspense set  in the year 2009, that places the reader inside a covert 'bizwar' that might well have been taken from today's  (and tomorrow's) headlines of political scandals and dirty covert corporate/ lobbying activities. Such activities have a long and infamous American and Canadian history. As the perhaps not-so-fictional storyline in this novel relates, decades ago a seriously threatened American military aircraft manufacturing industry covertly established and funded a secret operation that devastated Canada's military aircraft industry in general, and in particular its worlds' best Avro Arrow fighter-interceptor program. The Arrow's performance promised to surpass anything the American Air Force and its suppliers had, either in the air or on the drawing  boards.

The successor to that early covert group is now engaged is attempting to preserve and expand its HMO and PPO clients' far  more expensive, and much less inclusive, for-profit healthcare  programs by undermining and destroying their chief competitor, universal Medicare, represented in large part by the Canadian, government-funded universal Medicare system that has successfully served virtually all of its citizens at a fraction of the cost on a per capita basis.   

Available now through your favorite bookstore.   ISBN 1-896342-19-1. Bookstores should note that this novel is currently  distributed by the Toronto Aerospace Museum, www.torontoaerospacemuseum.com  You may also order retail purchases from the museum.

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THE REAL AVRO ARROW AIRCRAFT:

The famed Avro Arrow captured the imagination and energies of an entire nation, when the Canadian designed, built, and flown, fighter-interceptor was recognized as a truly outstanding achievement in aviation. Yet, in spite of all it had going for it, including the potential financial gain for Avro Aircraft and its many thousands of employees, and the literally over 100,000 associated Canadian workers and their families, as well as the major contribution that the Arrow would provide the defense forces of the West in the  Cold war days of the 1950s through 1980s, the program was nevertheless brutally and mercilessly shut down. Supposedly, all its six prototypes (supposedly), manufacturing equipment, drawings, etc..., were destroyed. 

The real reasons behind the termination of the Avro Arrow program have been explored and hypothesized about by many investigators. Several fine non-fiction books have been  published over the years that point strongly to the possibility that the actual reasons behind the termination of the Arrow program were very different than those provided by the Canadian government of the time. Prime  Minister John Deifenbaker and his Progressive Conservative party gave reasons for their decision to shut down the Arrow program that had to do with what they claimed would be prohibitive costs per aircraft and deficient performance. These reasons have been explored and largely debunked by other writers. 

So  what might have been behind the shooting down of the Avro Arrow? Some people have pointed to the U.S. for a possible answers to this question. This novel provides a fictional account of what  might have happened to the Arrow, and does  so in the context of the currently ongoing, intense battle being fought in the current decade over the future of one of Canada's other major governmental initiatives, the publicly run and funded Canadian universal medicare system,  which  by its very existence, may also be said to threaten the future of certain other American companies.

These two real issues, the Avro Arrow of the 1950s, and the present-day Canadian health care system, find fictional common ground in The Avro Arrow Manipulation novel, and in its protagonist, Ken Simpson, the prize-winning investigative reporter of The New York Era newspaper. What he uncovers in course of the novel is a plausible, though of course, fictional, connection between what happened to the Arrow and what may be happening to the future of Canada's health care system, even as you are reading this page.

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