The Whyte Python World Tour by Travis KennedyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
“Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change…”
-The Scorpions
Though that Scorps song captures the optimism of the end of the Cold War very well, it’s nothing on the wacky, action-packed antics of this fictional account, centered on exactly the kind of “more balls than brains” hero the world needs: Rikki Thunder, a glam metal god in the making…except the groupie he’s fallen in love with is a CIA agent looking to recruit him for a fundamentally life changing mission beyond the Iron Curtain. It’s a ludicrous historical thriller that honestly demands a movie adaptation ASAP, although good luck finding the right cast to play these characters - it’ll be a challenge especially for Rikki, that underlooked drummer and raw songwriter and surprising polyglot (he picks up Romanian in particular very quickly, and German too, among other languages of the Warsaw Pact.) But when you have talents as disparate as Cory Doctorow, Ernest Cline, and even Kat Rosenfield singing the praises of this book, you know you’ve tapped a vein of pure awesome.
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