Blackbox: A Novel in 840 Chapters

Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's much worse.

In America and Britain and the sky in between, an apparently disparate group of people is connected, whether intimately or by chance, to the tragic death of a stowaway on board flight AF266.

As the action veers across countries and time zones, the stowaway's real identity is revealed through stolen black box recordings, answering machine messages, sitcom outtakes, and court transcripts. Told in a shifting, circular narrative, the interwoven lives make up a jolting and layered puzzle that builds to a heart-stopping, chilling climax.

An intelligent and invigorating novel with a bizarre menu of dysfunctional characters, Blackbox is the story of an attempt to erase a life on tape.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 09/16/2003
ISBN: 9780060532246
Pages: 311
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.34w x 0.73d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2003 pg. 937
Booklist 09/01/2003 pg. 63
Publishers Weekly 09/22/2003 pg. 84
Library Journal 09/15/2003 pg. 94