When a low-level crook steals the wrong backpack from a pickup truck in downtown Portland, Maine, it leads fixer Shawn MacIntosh on a race against time to recover its contents in order to save his sister's life and prevent a mob war. The story was featured in the 2017 edition of Level Best Books's "Best New England Crime Stories" anthology.
Travis Kennedy’s work has been featured in the Best New England Crime Stories and Best American Mystery Stories anthologies, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He is the Grand Prize Winner of ScreenCraft’s 2021 Cinematic Book Contest for “Sharks in the Valley,” to be published as Welcome to Redemption. He lives in Scarborough, Maine, with his wife and their two children. The Whyte Python World Tour is his debut novel.