In Black Box, Jennifer Egan propels a peripheral character from her Pulitzer prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, into the 2030s, advancing her from a record producer’s tech-savvy assistant to a cyborg honey trap on a voluntary spy mission in the Mediterranean. Her task is to extract information from wealthy thugs, described as ‘powerful men’, in order to thwart terrorist attacks on the United States.
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