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The Whyte Python World Tour
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  • Published: 26 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405974226
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

The Whyte Python World Tour

Formats & editions
Paperback
15 Sept 2026
Tr. Paperback
23 Sept 2025
EBook
26 June 2025
Audiobook
26 June 2025
Hardback
26 July 2025
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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...
  • Published: 26 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405974226
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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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.
TK

Praise for The Whyte Python World Tour

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

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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