Whiskey Tango Foxtrotis at once a page-turning thriller, a deeply absorbing psychological novel, and a visionary exploration of the possibilities and hazards of our online lives.
David Shafer is a graduate of Harvard and the Columbia Journalism School. He has lived in Argentina and Dublin, and worked as a journalist, a carpenter and a taxi driver. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and children. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is his first book.
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 à la Neal Stephenson, powered by
social-media info-conspiracy à 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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