Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (David Shafer)

A rollicking spy-versus-spy kind of novel, with some loosely connected misfits who wind up working together against a terrible global force of 007 dimensions out to dominate the world. The Committee is bent on capturing and owning all the world's information: everything people do, say, buy, download, comment, or otherwise engage in anywhere in the vicinity of a smart device. Once they own it all, they can charge people to access it, or use it for extortion (pay up or say goodbye to the access codes to your bank account!). The people opposing them are a little too good to be true (gentle hippies who literally find the answer in hemp plants), but it's still fun to see how our merry band of drunken, crazy, ineffective losers actually manage to bring the bad guys down. I had to suspend belief so hard I think I pulled something, but I think it was worth it.

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