Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Ratings14
Average rating3.9
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Ratings14
Average rating3.9
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.
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This was a gripping read. I loved the writing style. It's that kind of sci fi that is close enough to real life to be terrifying.
As other reviewers have said, the book ends without answering a lot of questions. Perhaps it is better that the reader is left to imagine how each character develops after the end of the book, and how the world changes by what is about to happen, and which side might win. Nonetheless, the incomplete nature of the story does bother me. I also knocked off points because the ‘science fiction' elements of the story were completely unbelievable.
