[The Other Side of Midnight 01] • The Other Side of Midnight by Heffernan, Mike -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Introduction: A Hard Way of Life The Good Ol’ Days: The Early Taxicab Industry

The Last of the Old Taxi Men It was Steady Go—Steady Belt The Best Taxi Driver in St. John’s The Taxi Inspector The Knight Riders Concrete Jungle

Dead Time: Financial Hardships

Sacrifices Raising a Family Self-Discipline The State of the Economy All They were Interested in Was Eating Cut off at the Knees There is No Life as a Taxi Driver I’m Stuck at This Just a Girl Driving a Taxi Poor-Mouthing I Need This Job A Bunch of Cutthroats If You Want to Drive, Get Your Own Cab Have a Nice Day, My Darling What It all Boils Down to The Nature of the Business Sky Pilots The Downtown Rush A Vicious Cycle Make the most of What You Got Cribbing Costing Regular Business They Got to Get These Cars Moving The Last Time We Got a Raise A Peaceful Demonstration Fighting over Scraps

The City’s Teeming Entrails: Scenes from the Underground

Over Aggressive—That’s One Way to Put It I Won’t Touch a Drop The Rich Man’s Drug An Eye-Opening Experience A Dealer on Every Corner Reapers Stolen Meat On the Rob I Got to Move My Stuff A Backyard Tour of Duckworth Street Who Flushed all the Ecstasy down the Toilet? The Government Pays a Fortune What Happens between You and the Driver There are No Prostitutes in St. John’s A Common Practice Keep It in Your Pants What Happened to the Business?

Hacked to Death: Work-Related Violence.

A Hard Case Getting Set Up Just out of Dorchester A Sobeys Bag Full of Beer Guys like You in Prison Level-Headed I’m Not a Tough Person Going to War You Can’t Leave the Scene of an Accident Getting Sick in the Back Seat Zombies I Never Heard Nothing until I Got into This Dealing with Drunken Women They Don’t Know They’re in the Car You Get Fucked over, and no one Gives a Fuck Doing the Cops a Favour A People Person Hotheaded Violence is Not the Answer

Epilogue: Honesty is the Road to Poverty A Note on Sources Acknowledgements