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One of Time Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2014
Selected by NPR, Slate, and Kirkus as one of the Best Books of 2014
Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award
Three young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems--boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy--in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel.
The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit worker; Leo Crane, an unhinged trustafarian; and Mark Deveraux, a phony self-betterment guru who works for the Committee.
Leo and Mark were best friends in college, but early adulthood has set them on diverging paths. Growing increasingly disdainful of Mark's platitudes, Leo publishes a withering takedown of his ideas online. But the Committee is reading--and erasing--Leo's words. On the other side of the world, Leila's discoveries about the Committee's far-reaching ambitions threaten to ruin those who are closest to her.
In the spirit of William Gibson and Chuck Palahniuk,Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is both a suspenseful global thriller and an emotionally truthful novel about the struggle to change the world in- and outside your head.
Selected by NPR, Slate, and Kirkus as one of the Best Books of 2014
Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award
Three young adults grapple with the usual thirty-something problems--boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy--in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel.
The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit worker; Leo Crane, an unhinged trustafarian; and Mark Deveraux, a phony self-betterment guru who works for the Committee.
Leo and Mark were best friends in college, but early adulthood has set them on diverging paths. Growing increasingly disdainful of Mark's platitudes, Leo publishes a withering takedown of his ideas online. But the Committee is reading--and erasing--Leo's words. On the other side of the world, Leila's discoveries about the Committee's far-reaching ambitions threaten to ruin those who are closest to her.
In the spirit of William Gibson and Chuck Palahniuk,Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is both a suspenseful global thriller and an emotionally truthful novel about the struggle to change the world in- and outside your head.
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A paranoid, sarcastic and clattering pop thriller that reads as if it were torn from the damp pages of Glenn Greenwald's fever journal ... Reading [Shafer's] prose is like popping a variant of the red pill in The Matrix: everything gets a little crisper (New York Times)
Genius techno-thriller ą la Neal Stephenson, powered by social-media info-conspiracy ą la Dave Eggers (Time)
[It's] possible that Shafer is remaking the international thriller... An edgy, darkly comedic debut novel whose characters and premise are as up-to-the-minute as an online news feed (Kirkus Reviews)
The book's fanciful premise comes to seem eerily plausible: 'How about if a shadow government is filing away everything about you?' (The New Yorker)
Smart and often very funny ... Shafer etches diamond-sharp and precisely observed contemporary satire (Salon)
A stylish, absorbing, sharply modern hybrid of techno-thriller and psychodrama that bristles with wit and intellect (Maggie Shipstead, author of 'Seating Arrangements')
Moving, funny, engrossing and blisteringly smart (Time, Top Ten Fiction Books of 2014)
It is a joy to watch Shafer seamlessly work incisive commentary on contemporary life into a fast-paced spine-chiller (Daily Beast, The Best Fiction of 2014)
Exciting, funny, moving and thought-provoking (Irish Independent)
Among the hair-raising flights of fancy and irresistibly urgent plotting, Shafer alights on most of the key issues of the privacy debate ... Shafer's prose is whip-smart, funny and informal (Guardian)
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Genius techno-thriller ą la Neal Stephenson, powered by social-media info-conspiracy ą la Dave Eggers (Time)
[It's] possible that Shafer is remaking the international thriller... An edgy, darkly comedic debut novel whose characters and premise are as up-to-the-minute as an online news feed (Kirkus Reviews)
The book's fanciful premise comes to seem eerily plausible: 'How about if a shadow government is filing away everything about you?' (The New Yorker)
Smart and often very funny ... Shafer etches diamond-sharp and precisely observed contemporary satire (Salon)
A stylish, absorbing, sharply modern hybrid of techno-thriller and psychodrama that bristles with wit and intellect (Maggie Shipstead, author of 'Seating Arrangements')
Moving, funny, engrossing and blisteringly smart (Time, Top Ten Fiction Books of 2014)
It is a joy to watch Shafer seamlessly work incisive commentary on contemporary life into a fast-paced spine-chiller (Daily Beast, The Best Fiction of 2014)
Exciting, funny, moving and thought-provoking (Irish Independent)
Among the hair-raising flights of fancy and irresistibly urgent plotting, Shafer alights on most of the key issues of the privacy debate ... Shafer's prose is whip-smart, funny and informal (Guardian)
'The book's fanciful premise comes to seem eerily plausible: "How about if a shadow government is filing away everything about you?"' The New Yorker
Deep in the forest near Burma's border with China, a young woman sees something she wasn't supposed to see.
In Portland, Oregon, a young man crashes his bicycle on his way to work - and then gets fired.
In New York, a famous self-help author goes on daytime TV - and suddenly conceives 'a book that would take him beyond talk shows'.
What connects these three people - though they don't know it yet - is that they have come to the attention of the Committee, a global cabal that seeks to privatize all information. And each of them will, in their different ways, come to take part in the secret resistance struggle spearheaded by a scarily clever hacktivist collective - a struggle built on radical politics, classic spycraft and eye-popping technology.
Along the way, they are forced to confront their own demons, reconsider their values, and contemplate the meaning of love, family, friendship and community. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is at once a page-turning thriller, a deeply absorbing psychological novel, and a visionary exploration of the possibilities and hazards of our online lives.
'A stylish, absorbing and sharply modern hybrid of techno-thriller and psychodrama that bristles with wit and intellect and offers a dark, incisive vision of the global consequences of turning our lives into collectible data' Maggie Shipstead
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- PublisherMulholland Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1478905344
- ISBN 13 9781478905349
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