Black Cabs - John McLaren

Black Cabs - John McLaren: FOLLOW THAT CAB (369 words)
by werewolf2 - written on 29.04.02 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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Black Cabs by John McLaren is described by the Sunday Times on the front cover as “A gripping tale of high finance and low cunning “ The back cover also has 3 quotes by National papers including : “This is one of those why-didn’t-I-think-of-that-first ideas” by the Sunday Mirror. The blurb states:- “Too much knowledge is dangerous… A big city thriller of money and murder The high flyers of London’s investment banks are all too aware that information is gold-dust when billion pound deals are at stake. But as the highly-paid guns at Skidder Barton, a fading giant in the ...

Taxi! (702 words)
by george_lazenby - written on 21.08.01 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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All you need is one idea, and assuming your publishers market the book well, you have got it made. The idea can be childishly simple, as long as it lodges in the mind of the potential reader’s mind, as long as a good one-liner can be found for the advert – bingo. John McLaren’s book ‘Black cabs’ has a fabulous single idea: black cab drivers overhear information from finance types when they work in the City, and make a killing using this inside information to buy shares. Whether the book is or is not any good is more or less irrelevant – as with most things the quality of the product is less important than whether or not it can ...