I'm Starting to Worry about This Black Box of Doom
by Jason Pargin
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THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
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 her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.
But there are rules:
He cannot look inside the box.
He cannot ask questions.
He cannot tell anyone.
They must leave immediately.
He must leave all trackable devices behind.
As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.
The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781250285959
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Authors
- Jason Pargin
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published Date
- September 24, 2024
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 400
- Physical Info
- 1.4 in H x 8.7 in L x 6.4 in W (1.3 lb)

I haven't read a book that made me think and feel as much as this one. Thank you Jason Pargin.
The author is a good story teller and paces the book well. Most of the books I read are either free from the library or included in a subscription service. I paid for this book and received my money's worth.Some of the black box of doom ideas will certainly be sticky with me.
It’s fun. Read it. If you like this sort of thing then this is the sort of thing that you’ll like.
Read easy as the characters developed the modern reality of today’s Americana.Enjoyed the book and enjoy the author’s examination of our current reality in a way that lets me examine it while enjoying the characters story develop.
Jason Pargin has created a story that, despite his protestations to the contrary, feels very much like the real world, except funnier. It is about how a situation that is fairly odd to begin with can escalate into a full-blown national emergency because of the speculation, fear and outrage of random people on the internet. The characters are well-rounded enough that they are recognizably human and not caricatures, and yet their personal experiences and obsessions keep the plot moving from near-disaster to near-disaster to real disaster with plenty of laughs. It is interesting that the person who at first seems to be the magic pixie dream girl is actually the voice of reason. Pargin makes some thought-provoking points while magically turning a satire of today's state of affairs into a wonderful way to get away from the state of the world for several hours.