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The Whyte Python World Tour
By (Author) Travis Kennedy
Penguin Books Ltd
Michael Joseph Ltd
23rd September 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Paperback
400
Width 153mm, Height 234mm, Spine 40mm
700g
A thrilling, rock-n-roll head-banger of a debut, steeped in '80s music culture nostalgia and international suspense. As intensely gripping as it is raucously funny! It's Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. When aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder gets a shot to join L.A.'s hottest new band, Whyte Python, he soon has a hit single scorching up the charts, and the life he always dreamed of. But good fortune can be deceiving. With the Cold War breathing its last gasps and American music blasting through the Iron Curtain, a revolution is taking hold. Rikki soon realizes there is a deeper web of influence propelling Whyte Python, and his mission-to spread peace, love, and epic shredding across the globe-are far more dangerous than he could ever imagine...
TRAVIS KENNEDY is the grand prize winner of Screencraft's 2021 Cinematic Book Contest for Sharks in the Valley, to be published as Welcome to Redemption. His work has been recognized in the Best American Mystery Stories anthology (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). He has been featured in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and multiple editions of the Best New England Crime Stories anthology, among other publications. He lives in Scarborough, Maine, with his wife and their two children.