This is the novel Bill Clinton said he was enjoying reading, March 2006.

                                            SYNOPSIS OF THE NOVEL

Set in the near future of 2009, this novel deals the covert activities of a fictional American company, The American Management Profit Retention and Recovery company (TAMPRR, Inc.) that, for over a half-century, has achieved remarkable success in carrying on an international 'biz-war’ on behalf of its select U.S. military and corporate clients . 

Among its major assignments, TAMPRR has worked to sabotage two of Canada’s greatest accomplishments - the famed Avro Arrow fighter-interceptor aircraft program and the Canadian universal Medicare system.  Fifty years ago TAMPRR achieved the former goal. For the several years up to and including 2009, this privately held company has been working hard to complete the destruction of Canada’s universal Medicare system, in part by 'persuading' some of that country's wealthier provincial governments to deliberately lengthen medical waiting lists by closing hospitals, firing nurses, etc.... It is now on the verge of final victory. 

A prize-winning senior American investigative reporter, Ken Simpson of the New York Era, soon accompanied by a mysterious and very attractive junior reporter, begins a new series of articles examining the state of healthcare in the U.S.A.  Simpson soon learns from a key insider about the efforts of TAMPRR to sabotage and then take over and 'Americanize' their northern neighbor's Canadian healthcare. Equally if not more disturbing, he discovers that he has powerful personal - as well as professional - reasons to investigate the actual events leading to the shutting down of the Canadian government's Avro Arrow program of the 1950's, that was  followed relatively shortly thereafter by his own (topgun) father's death. 

Simpson comes to realize that he may be the only person willing - and in a position to - stop TAMPRR’s owner, retired USAF Colonel and ex-CIA operative, Jake Marks, from achieving his crowning – and most lucrative – business triumph. The fact that, at the same time, he can bring justice to a much earlier case of newly discovered murder, provides an extra motivation to his efforts.   

In the process of uncovering and then disclosing (through his newspaper columns) some of the most disturbing elements of American business practices, Ken Simpson's writing stirs into action some highly placed American ( and Canadian) business and political leaders to decide to join in the common goal of developing and utilizing the potential of 21st century technologies to make their countries more genuinely participatory and interactive democracies.

 Applause for the novel from those in a position to know something of these matters

• "A compelling and fascinating novel. It's premise is wildly imaginative but disturbingly plausible. The story of the Arrow's demise is an enigma within an enigma, and Will Cupchik's theory is  as good as any I've heard.  Will is a good story-teller and The Avro Arrow Manipulation would make a fine movie....  I hope it sells a zillion. "   -- June Callwood, noted Canadian journalist and author 

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• “A compelling overview of the key issues and political dynamics of the U.S. and Canadian health care systems. You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to appreciate the very distinct plot possibility of Will Cupchik’s truly riveting novel.” -- Bob Couchman, Yukon Member of the Canadian Federal Government’s Ministerial Advisory Council On Rural Health

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• "I was impressed and sometimes even startled by what Will Cupchik has written. I didn't know how he could weave the Arrow story into one on healthcare in a credible manner, but he has done it…  The book is worth reading if only for his comparisons, through genuine information, on the differences between US and Canadian healthcare. What I found most impressive and inspiring is how Will has analyzed the various ruling "power organisms" at play in our societies... I heartily endorse The Avro Arrow Manipulation as a good, engrossing, and entertaining read that has a heart and a conscience."  -- Randall Whitcomb, author of Avro Aircraft and Cold War Aviation and former Canadian Forces fighter pilot   

From A Physician in Alberta, Canada: 

"I think the issues in the book are very real and worrisome. Even now the way some of these politicians and others in  high  places are acting I sometimes wonder if a real life, covert 'bizwar' company like the one in the book named TAMPRR is, in actual fact, in place and working to destroy the Canadian universal  medicare system. ... In  spite of some apparent erosion due to cutbacks which seem to be aimed at destroying the Canadian system, in my opinion it is still better than the one in the USA.
"What amazes me is the number of people who think they would be better off being bankrupted by switching to the American system."
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Summary of comments of the co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of an American, California-headquartered company involved in U.S. military aircraft and aerospace development:

As an American businessman whose company is deeply involved in military projects, the fictional premise of your novel as to how, why and by whom the Avro Arrow program may have been forced to close down by a company such as TAMPRR, certainly makes a lot of sense to me. In fact, I would actually be happy to learn that some Americans were involved in stopping the Avro Arrow program from going forward. Such covert action would have helped prevent Canada from gaining military supremacy in an area that might have cost American corporations billions and billions of dollars, and perhaps, as well, our pre-eminent military air superiority in fighter-interceptor aircraft. 

Anyway, there is simply no way that Americans would want to 'buy Canadian' (or any other country's military aircraft, for that matter) in order to be able to protect ourselves and our national interests.  

As for the idea that some HMOs and other healthcare related companies might be working to sabotage your Canadian universal Medicare system; well, if that is happening, it's nothing  personal; its just like the Arrow thing; it is simply a matter of some of our companies working to protect and grow their own businesses. After all, all's fair in love, war, and business.