Knowledge

by Mark Jackson

London, 1971. Tony Pinner, a cabbie stumbles upon the existence of a secret society within the ranks of the black cabs. The Knowledge could kill him. Tony comes from a long tradition of Black Cab drivers, with both his father and grandfather being cabbies before him. Tony's life has stalled. His marriage stale and strained. When one of his regular fares is kidnapped and, later, fished out of the Thames, he decides to track down the killers. His search brings him to the attention of an ancient order, that is determined to silence him. Soon he is being hunted through the very streets he calls home. Pinner knows London like the back of his hand, but if he is to discover who his enemies really are, he will need all his knowledge. It might just keep him alive long enough to find out the truth and who he can truly trust.

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First published October 28, 2013

About the author

Mark Jackson is Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments and Health at the University of Exeter. After qualifying in immunology in 1982 and medicine in 1985, he pursued research on the social history of infanticide and the history of `feeble-mindedness’ at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester. More recently, he has been researching and writing on the history of allergies and stress in the modern world, from an international perspective. His major publications include New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England (1996), The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (2000), Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady (2006), Asthma: The Biography (2009), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (ed., 2011), The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (2013), The History of Medicine: A Beginners Guide (2014, shortlisted for the Dingle Prize), Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945-85 (ed., 2015), and The Routledge History of Disease (ed., 2016). He is currently writing a cultural history of the midlife crisis and health in middle age.

He has a strong interest in developing the undergraduate medical curriculum, creating opportunities for wider public engagement activities, and collaborating with health practitioners and policy-makers to enable health and well-being. He was Senior Academic Adviser (Medical Humanities) to the Wellcome Trust (2013-16), has served as Chair of the Wellcome Trust History of Medicine and Research Resources Funding Committees, (2003-13), and was a member of the History sub-panel for REF 2014. He is Chair of the WHO Europe Expert Advisory Group on the Cultural Contexts of Health and a member of the WHO European Advisory Committee on Health Research.

Reviews

[Paul Main · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. Read it over 2 nights! Its has great visions of London land marks which allows the reader to put him/her self at the scene. The small touches of cab and cabbie detail adds to the atmosphere. The Author has clearly done his homework on 70's London.
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