The Devil's Code: Kidd, Book 3

Sandford's books are page turners. Great subject matter and characters.Can't wait to read the next one in the series.

We miss them!To get more I had to read them again!Thanks for the memories.You and Amazon don't make money that way!

Way not up to Sandford’s quality. He’s trying too hard to create a new genre—and he fails. Too complicated and too unrealistic.

This is another good one in the Kidd Series. Give him an open port and Kidd has the software that gets him into any computer anywhere and takes control of it. But sometimes getting to the open port takes some hard work. That's where his buddy LuEllen comes in. She is an expert crook. Kidd is an artist who could support himself selling paintings. He hacks for the fun of it. The two make a cute couple - during the brief periods when LuEllen decides to be part of a couple.In this case the goal is not clear. Kidd figures it out as he goes and we find out at the very end after he accomplishes it. You have to play a little loose, hang in there and believe it will make sense. It does. A pretty professor of Computer Science at Stanford comes to Kidd's St Paul home and asks him to find out who killed her brother in Dallas a few days before and why. OK - That's a goal. But he finds out within a few days who did the deed. Then he learns that he will have to do some 8-story work to get the details so he calls in LuEllen. There is some indistinct tie-in to the NSA (National Security Agency) that Kidd uncovers. So he gets the name, address and phone number (via a hacker friend) of one of the executives in the NSA. He confronts the executive on one of her evening jogs, wearing a Bill Clinton mask and tries to get her to look differently at a group of benevolent hackers. This is not entirely successful because then when he contacts her by cell phone as he and LuEllen are driving along an Interstate, she sends a pair of helicopters after them. He gets lucky and finds a mall just near an exit with an inside garage where he can park and burn his rental car, go through the mall and steal a car on the other side.And so it goes. This book is a collaboration with the author's son, Ros, and so it indicates that there will probably be Sandford books around for a long time. That's great. You don't have to be a computer nerd to enjoy these stories. Just follow the action as Kidd and LuEllen climb 8 stories on elevator cables above an unused freight elevator, and crawl around the sage brush on a Texas ranch with night-vision equipment when the Bad Guy has better equipment. It is not vital that you read these in order. There is only minor connectivity.So take a guess: Does Kidd end up a burned hulk in a Texas ranch house, a dead body in a vast field on the ranch, or keeping himself warm snuggling against LuEllen's backside in his St Paul flat?

Have just finished the Kidd series and enjoyed each book. Sandford had quite a few computer technical details that were beyond me. But the story line flowed and kept me reading to find out the next plot twist. Good read to the very end!

I was somewhat hesitant to start reading the Memory Man series, just starting earlier this year. But with each episode I read I look forward to the next. Well written and the characters are likeable.

I GAVE IT 4 STARS ONLY BECAUSE IT WAS A LITTLE TOO SHORT FOR A NOVEL. ALTHOUGH A CERTAIN CHARACTER'S DEATH IS NOT KIDD AND LUELLEN'S RESPONSIBILITY, THEY COME OFF AS SUPER COLD HEARTED FOR NOT ARRANGING OR EXPLAINING THE FINAL DISPOSITION OF THE BODY. ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY FINANCIALLY BENEFITED, AS USUAL, FROM THEIR RELATIONSHIP. OVERALL IT WAS A GOOD READ. THERE ARE MANY CHARACTERS TO KEEP TRACK OF. I LOVED THE ENDING. I DO HOPE TO EVENTUALLY SEE HIOW KIDD AND DAVENPORT MEET, AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING IT. SOME OF THE TECHIE STUFF THREW ME, BUT I DID (barely) GET THE GIST OF IT ALL. I CAN DEFINITELY SEE JOHN'S SON BECOMING A WRITER IN HIS OWN MILIEU SINCE HE WORKED WITH HIS FATHER ON THE TECHIE ANGLE OF THE BOOK.

While dated the computer jargon is fairly accurate the hacker environment back in the 80s and 90s was not all kids yet the nsa was past its prime all the major and nonstate people had countermeasures to satellite surveillance of anything important

I am a huge John Sandford fan, but much more the wonderful Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers series. I bought this out of impatience, awaiting the next of either of the other two. I have read the earlier Kidd novels, and if I wasn’t aware of JS’s others, would probably think they were fine. I know Kidd is a computer hacker, but the tech on this left me way way behind, so I speed read through those parts, which somewhat defeated the object, I think. I finished it, but out of loyalty to JS. I will think long and hard before buying others in this series and most likely, will not bother. The computer detail is just too abstruse and I don’t think the characters come alive as in the other two series. There is almost that underlying glimmer of humour but not enough to compensate for what seemed acres of computer data. Do people who read crime novels really go for that?My impatience has been rewarded as I have pre-ordered the next Lucas Davenport /Virgil Flowers; they are working together, I read. Great! No need to waste time with the next of Kidd.

Gave up halfway through. I could not understand the plot, had not engaged with any of the characters, and was really just reading meaningless words. Sorry!

I like the series a lot. The old techno didn't phase me at all.

Brilliant fast moving storyline. John Sandford never disappoints, I wish there were more books in the Kidd series.

the best you can read i love him