Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (novel)

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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Author David Shafer
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublishedAugust 5, 2014
PublisherMulholland Books [1]
Little, Brown and Company [1]
Pages425pp [1]
ISBN 978-0-316-25263-8
OCLC 880885338

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a 2014 debut novel by David Shafer. [1]

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Plot

A pop thriller about a multinational cabal planning to subjugate humanity by privatizing all information.

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