The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis Kennedy - ISBN: 9780241738436
Hardcover
‘80s metal, Cold War intrigue, and a band’s world-altering tour.

The Whyte Python World Tour

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  • Hardcover

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    26 July 2025

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Summary

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 Ame…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241738436
ISBN-10:0241738431
Author:Travis Kennedy
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Michael Joseph Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:26 July 2025
Weight:632g
Dimensions:242mm x 164mm x 39mm
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Critics Review

Kennedy’s debut novel is clever and brilliantly funny, nailing the mutually exclusive worlds of metal and intelligence with wit. You’ll love this Spynal Tap * Sun *
Rollicking * People *
Outrageous fun. Outrageous twists. Just outrageous, period! * Lincoln Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author *
Fans of spy thrillers will enjoy this delightfully silly and suspenseful Cold War-era adventure * Booklist *
Hilarious, fast-paced, and thoroughly debauched. The Cold War was a lot weirder – and funnier – than we knew * Cory Doctorow *

About The Author

Travis Kennedy

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.

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