Blackbox

by NickWalker (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.30

  Cross a road, take a train or get on an aeroplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger - every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible, every bit as human as you are. So, meet an apparently disparate group of people - a comedian whose sole gag consists of committing suicide; an air traffic controller with a fear of flying and a pyschiatrist more in need of therapy than his patients - all of whom are connected to the tragic death of a stowaway on a flight into Birmingham in 1978. Twenty years later, they are powerless to interfere as the identity of the body emerges through stolen black box recordings, answer-machine tapes, surveillance footage and court transcripts. BLACK BOX is their desperate attempt to erase a life on tape.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.30

  Everyday we put our lives in the hands of someone else: airline pilots with a phobia of flying; psychiatrists in need of therapy and air hostesses trying to 'do the right thing'. So meet an apparently disparate group of people all connected to the tragic death of a stowaway in 1978. It's twenty-three years later, and despite their attempts to build new lives, the connections begin to emerge and, along with them, the truth. A truth held on blackbox recordings, answermachine tapes, sitcom outtakes, and court transcripts.