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08.06: David Shafer

2014-07-16 01:40:55| Powells Books Events Calendar

Three young adults grapple with the usual 30-something problems — boredom, authenticity, an omnipotent online oligarchy — in David Shafer's darkly comic debut novel, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (Mulholland Books). 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 nonprofit 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, Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a suspenseful global thriller and a darkly comic debut novel about the struggle to change the world inside — and outside — your head.

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