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Little, Brown & Company
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
Featuring: Leila Majnoun; Leo Crane; Mark Deveraux
ISBN: 0316252638 EAN: 9780316252638 Hardcover
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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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