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THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR

Travis Kennedy

A Novel

The Whyte Python World Tour is a fictional rock memoir set in the world - wait for it - of 1980's heavy metal culture.

Beginning our journey on the sunset strip, following the woes of rock n'roll drummer Rikki Thunder and his band, Whyte Python, as they take off for an epic tour across Eastern Europe.

It's 1986, and metal rules the world. Drummer Rikki Thunder thinks he has it all - he's playing in a garage band in West Hollywood with his best buds, and he just met the girl of his dreams. But strange events follow this dream woman, and soon Rikki finds himself stumbling upward into Whyte Python, the hottest band on the Sunset Strip. Now, Rikki is on tour across America: playing arenas, making money, and unknowingly participating in a CIA experiment - run by his own girlfriend, undercover CIA Officer Amanda Price.
In this satirical work, metal legend Rikki Thunder recounts his humble beginnings, recruitment into the CIA, and his band's little-known mission to use metal music to foment regime change in the Eastern Bloc. Along the way, Rikki is pulled deeper into his mission on Whyte Python's tour, growing closer to his conflicted handler, Amanda, and navigating the building danger that lurks around every corner...

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 (William Morrow, January 2025) and adapted for television by Netflix and Universal. 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.

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Travis Kennedy is too fiendishly clever for his own damn good. As he's perfectly satirizing the hair-metal scene on the very first downbeat, you're strapping yourself in for a wild ride. . . and suddenly he spikes your drink and cranks the Marshall stack to 20. Outrageous fun. Outrageous twists. Just outrageous, period!

The Whye Python World Tour has everything: the glam rock satire of This Is Spinal Tap; the cloak-and-dagger thrills of Bridge of Spies; and a hero you'll want to climb over the hood of a car in a leopard-print bikini for. The only thing missing is a parental advisory sticker: WARNING: THIS BOOK ROCKS HARD.

A rock 'n' roll thrill ride. . . . The Whyte Python World Tour feels like a cross between a harrowing episode of Behind the Music and a Roger Mooreera James Bond flick. Heavy metal icon Rikki Thunder's satirical memoir is sweeter than cherry pie and better than a prescription from Dr. Feelgood! You need to read it.

UK/ANZ: Michael Joseph

A heavy metal drummer is recruited by the CIA to help topple the Eastern Bloc with the power of rock.. This offbeat gem does for metal dudes what Daisy Jones & the Six does for the yacht-rock crowd. A nostalgic, headbanging comedy about rock 'n' roll refugees.

Sex, thugs, and rock 'n' roll! If Iron Maiden had made a James Bond movie it would have been Travis Kennedy's The Whyte Python World Tour, an antic thriller that spins the shiniest metal videos of the1980s with cliffhanging adventure movie in which an unsuspecting heavy metal band is infiltrated by the CIA and becomes a secret weapon in the final days of the Cold War. Heads are banged, fists raised, and the KGB and Stasi are no match for the power of rock 'n' roll.

Hilarious, fast-paced, and thoroughly debauched. The Cold War was a lot weirderand funnierthan we knew.