Flambard's Canadian Capers Author:Robin Maxwell A spoof on early computer users and the consultants who advised them. It is the summer of 66, and systems engineer Flambard OHiggins is pressured into quitting the US by his widowed mother who wants him in Canada, safe from the Vietnam draft. But Canada is not the sleepy backwater, nor is systems work there as easygoing he has been led to b... more »elieve. And never mind the arctic blizzards, he finds himself as much a frequent flyer as he ever was back home. To top it all, President Johnsons call to arms gnaws so much on his conscience that were it not for the overwhelming allure of a fellow consultant of the opposing sex he would be on the first flight back to Detroit. And that consultant is Leslie Ingram, a product of the elite WASP enclave of Westmount, Quebec who championed the feminist cause until disillusioned by the human frailties of its leader at Berkeley. Adrift, she discovers management consulting and management consulting discovers her. She forges ahead, a r! ising star in the profession, until assailed by that mysterious force, that same sweet and cunning hand that has bewitched Flambard. The story gathers pace as these two protagonists of the madcap world of the 60s resolve their conflicts.« less