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A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport…

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1 author picked I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The title says it all. This is a very entertaining story, funny and original, a mystery and an adventure. It's vaguely sci-fi, but genre isn't what this book is about. The two main characters are brilliant. You feel for Abbott. You worry about Ether. But together, this unlikely pair just might make it. Good characters plus great writing is more than enough to carry most stories and ISTWATBBOD doesn't disappoint. It keeps coming at you with craziness until the very end.

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