The Devils Code, John Sandford
The Devils Code, John Sandford
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The Devil's Code

Author: John Sandford

Series: Kidd #3

Narrator: Frank Muller

Abridged: 5 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/14/2004

Synopsis

When Kidd—artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal—learns of a colleague’s murder, he doesn’t buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It’s not what his friend was looking for that got him killed. It’s what he already knew. For Kidd and LuEllen, infiltrating the firm is the first move. Discovering the secrets of its devious entrepreneur is the next one. But it’s more than a secret—it’s a conspiracy. And it’s landed Kidd and LuEllen in the cross hairs of an unknown assassin hell-bent on conning the life out of the ultimate con artists. . . .

About John Sandford

American author, John Sanford (a pseudonym of John Roswell Camp) wrote thirty-five novels, all of which are on the New York Times bestsellers list in one way or another. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1944, where he spent much of his time with his Lithuanian grandparents. Their home was very primitive with an outside outhouse and a subsistence garden. Life was work centered on the farm with hay being bailed each summer to feed the various farm animals. Fruit trees were also in abundance on their property. It was a good place to grow up.

Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and also won the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He also wrote two non-fiction books. The Eye and the Heart: The Water Colors of John Stuart Ingle, and Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut.

Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones, and has two children. Susan died in May 2007 of metastasized breast cancer, and he married again in 2013 to Michele Cook, a journalist and screenwriter. Camp is a dedicated painter and photographer also. He, however, does not show his paintings.

Camp's most prolific work is the Prey series of which there are currently twenty-five installments, running from 1989 - 2015.......the first being Rules of Prey and the most recent, Gathering Prey, which debuted on April 28, 2015. Other series include The Kidd Series, The Virgil Flowers Series, The Singular Menace Series, and other various books and short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper

Kidd returns home from a fishing trip and immediately gets bad news. One of his hacking buddies was recently killed in Dallas while supposedly breaking into a software company that does a lot of cybersecurity work for the U.S. government. At the same time feds start a massive crackdown looking for a......more

Goodreads review by Jean

This was a fun, fast paced story about computer hackers. I found the mention of the various computer equipment interesting as it sent me down memory lane. I remember the Jaz drive and their various competitors. This book was published in 2000; it is amazing how much has changed in computing. This is......more

Goodreads review by Jay

It is very hard for me to give a Sandford book such a low rating, but this one just didn't get me. I fairly enjoyed the first 2 Kidd novels, but this one just never got me hooked. I have to say it, I don't like Kidd or LuEllen. I feel no character development to either one, or any attachment to the......more

Goodreads review by Mike

Computer whiz and professional criminal Kidd and his partner/lover LuEllen team up to solve the disappearance of Kidd's friend Jack Morrison. He finds out that he and his friends are being hunted by several men - intentions unknown but probably not good. They feel they need to find out what happened......more

Goodreads review by John

Now this is more like it. In the first novel featuring Kidd, The Fool’s Run, the computer hacker was hired to illegally retrieve losses to industrial espionage. After the twist and turns and betrayals, we get to see the villain outfoxed and forced to watch everything gained through treachery taken a......more

Quotes

“Fascinating…crime fiction doesn’t have nearly enough droll master thieves like Kidd and his stunning partner in righteous crime, LuEllen.” —The Los Angeles Times

“Plenty of stirring action…edgy and provocative…Kidd’s return [is] welcome news for Sandford fans.” —Publishers Weekly

“Filled with great atmosphere, characters, and exceptional drama, The Devil’s Code is truly vintage Sandford.” —The Stuart News (Stuart, FL)

“Sandford obviously loves Kidd, taking him to humorous and/or technological extremes.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“Good thrillers are usually character-driven, and The Devil’s Code is a good thriller.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“[The Devil’s Code] is action-filled and good fun.” —St. Petersburg Times

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