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THE DEVIL'S CODE by John Sandford - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by John Sandford.
The pseudonymous John Sandford is best known for his durable series of suspense novels (Night Prey, Eyes of Prey,
etc.) featuring Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport. But
earlier in his career, writing under his given name of John Camp,
Sandford produced a pair of striking -- and very different -- thrillers
featuring the artist, hacker, and occasional criminal known, simply, as
Kidd. Nine years after his farewell appearance in The Empress Files, Kidd makes a welcome return in a cleverly conceived cyberthriller called, appropriately, The Devil's Code.
Kidd is an intriguingly contradictory antihero: a successful
painter who supplements his income through illegal computer activities,
a pragmatist who believes in the predictive qualities of the tarot. His
latest adventure begins with a pair of enigmatic, seemingly unrelated
murders. First, Terence Lighter, a midlevel bureaucrat for the National
Security Agency, is shot to death outside his Glen Burnie home. One day
later, Jack Morrison, a fellow hacker and former associate of Kidd's,
is likewise shot to death, ostensibly while breaking into the data
banks of AmMath, a high-tech firm specializing in the development of
encryption software. Shortly afterward, Morrison's sister, convinced
that her brother was an innocent victim, enlists Kidd's aid in
uncovering the circumstances that led to Jack's death.
Kidd, along with some colorful cohorts from his checkered past,
soon finds himself imperiled on two related fronts. First, his
investigation into AmMath's shadier dealings inadvertently triggers a
second series of murders. At the same time, his supposed connection
with a mythical hacker/terrorist group named Firewall makes him the
target of an intense, highly publicized federal investigation. Kidd's
attempts to exonerate Jack Morrison, unearth the details of a
treasonous conspiracy, and avoid capture by the combined forces of the
FBI and NSA form the substance of this furiously paced, unfailingly
entertaining novel.
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