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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 a la Neal Stephenson, powered by social-media info-conspiracy a 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 * A fine example of what happens when big, brainy ideas are successfully mated with good old-fashioned plot thrust ... [Shafer] makes you care for his characters, even the ones with First World problems, while threading chewy techno-philosophical ideas through stretches of masterfully maintained suspense, paid off by big event-driven set-pieces (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot sometimes reads like William Gibson indulging his love of Le Carre). More, he can return the weariest soul to that glorious state of teenage binge-reading, when you'd stay up until two in the morning ... simply to find out what happens next. ... The next time the Fiction is Dead brigade demand to know why novels deserve a place in popular culture, the constant reader might well cite this book as Exhibit A for the defence * Irish Times *
