On the recommendation of a friend I picked up a copy of Mean Streets: Confessions of a Nighttime Taxi Driver by author Peter McSherry. The book is based in my home-town of Toronto, which makes it that more intriguing for me. Here is a snippet:

"A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision. Taxi driver Peter McSherry recounts tales of his thirty years of experience driving cabs at night on the hard-bitten streets of Canada's largest city. Drunks, punks, con artists, hookers, pimps, drug addicts, drug pushers, thugs, nymphomaniacs, snakes, politicians, celebrities . . . he's experienced them all. McSherry serves up his stories with forthrightness, humour, and the occasional dash of cynicism. In this well-written and street-smart book, the author tells the rest of us about a world we can only imagine - if we dare."

You can grab new or used copies from Amazon for dirt cheap. Just click on the linky I added in above if you are interested. They also have copies at Chapters, and the Toronto Public Library.