# Black Box

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- Book: [Black Box](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-egan/black-box) ([Black Box.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-egan/black-box.md))
- Authors: [Jennifer Egan](https://www.bookquiver.com/jennifer-egan)
- Publisher: corsair
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7210-281-2
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.' America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman whose success - whose life - depends on being seen and not seen. Originally published online via Twitter by @NYerFiction, Jennifer Egan's first new fiction since the phenomenal success of A Visit From the Goon Squad is a taut, compulsive work of unrelenting genius.