Blackbox

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