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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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