“Hilarious, moving, and wildly ambitious, David Shafer’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot reads like a plot against America dreamed up by the NSA and then ghostwritten by Don DeLillo…Forget debut: it marks the arrival of a major new writer.” —Adam Ross, author of Mr. Peanut

“Roaming from Burma to Oregon to a mysterious ship in the open ocean, David Shafer’s debut novel is a stylish, absorbing, sharply modern hybrid of techno thriller and psychodrama that bristles with wit and intellect and offers a dark, incisive vision of the global consequences of turning our lives into collectable data.” —Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements

“Outlandishly clever. Evoking the technological-paranoia of Philip K. Dick and the verbal pyrotechnics of David Foster Wallace, Shafer’s digital take-over is absurdly comical and all too familiar. The characters are complicated, fascinating, and fully engaging while the threats feel frighteningly real.” —Joe Meno, author of The Great Perhaps

“David Shafer’s amazing debut novel should be a controlled substance, its addictive quotient of the highest order. I devoured it imagining this is what a brainstorming event between Thomas Pynchon and Edward Snowden would deliver.” –Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

“Hilarious and chilling, fast-paced and thoughtful…While the novel reads like a comic thriller, it speaks powerfully to our over-connected, over-watched, privacy-depleted moment.” —Ken Kalfus, author of Equilateral and A Disorder Particular to the Country