Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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 AwardThree 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 Ma...
Author: Shafer David
Year of publication: 2014
Number of pages: 457
Reading time: 7 h. 37 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF