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Summary: Creative Plot!
Review: Ejoyed this one by Sandford. Very creative especially with the technology of today. Kidd and LuEllen add a twist to things. Would enjoy reading other books with them.
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Summary: Disappointing Kidd novel, not as good as the first two...
Review: This is the third novel starring Kidd, a computer hacker and painter and his partner in crime/lover LuEllen. After reading the first two books of the series ("The Fools' Run" and "The Empress File"), I had high hopes for this addition, especially regarding Kidd and LuEllen's on and off love relationship. However, it was diappointing. There was little or no character development since The Empress File. In the other two books, there was much character depth and the characters seem to come alive. Unfortunately, Kidd and LuEllen seemed two-dimensional in this story. The dialogue wasn't impressive either. The plot revolves around the mysterious death of a fellow computer genius who was killed while supposedly caught breaking into AmMath, a computer chip technology firm that the government hired to design encrytion technology. Rumors of the existence of a group of radical computer hackers opposing the US government called Firewall started to spread and appear on the news. There's also a list of screen names of people that were supposedly in this group. The most astonishing thing is that Kidd's, Bobby's, and their friends' screen names were included in that list! Kidd, LuEllen and Kidd's computer friends team up to try to find out what's going on before the FBI tracks them down. Behind all this is a big conspiracy arbitrated by a small group of people at AmMath. They will stop at nothing to protect and hide their secret. Kidd and LuEllen is once again faced with a dangerous opponent. The story is somewhat confusing and difficult to follow at times. Kidd's major breakthroughs and crack in the case were not apparent or easy to understand, even if he explained his train of thought. The story ended abruptly through the death of the villain. I still didn't understand how Kidd pulled that off. The best parts of the book were Kidd/LuEllen's plan and execution of their breakins into apartments and tricks used. Fans of Kidd/LuEllen may enjoy this book just because it's been so long that we see this duo since their last adventure. Even though this book was a major letdown, I'm still looking forward to Kidd/LuEllen's next appearance. Hope the author continues to write about them.
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Summary: Another Great Kidd Novel
Review: A great follow-up to The Fool's Run and The Empress file. If you like the other Kidd novels, then you'll be pleased with this one! If you have bever read Sandford's Kidd series, you'll enjoy a great, plot-twisting, suspenseful, technological thriller. Good technical details to keep the tech-at-heart interested and good stroyline / suspense to keep those that like surprises pleased. A quick, enjoyable read. Looking forward (hopefully) to the next Kidd novel.
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Summary: Nothing intriquite about this.
Review: Let me just say that the first 50 pages are very fast paced and you will at least remember them. Most of the technology(in the computer stuff) in the Devil's Code is ery well done and very cool, however the author tries to make the book to suspenseful we already know the ansewer to who killed those people.
My biggest compliant has to be the ending, as in most of these kind of books the bad guy is killed within the lat 29 pages and all the good guys(Joanna, Bobby and the rest) go riding off into the sunset.
Still this is a good book to read if you are stranded in an airport for 6 hours.
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Summary: You will remember this book after reading it...
Review: My perception of a book as good is based on how well I can remember the plot for it 2 weeks after reading it. There are plenty of bad novels, but this is not one of them. It gets especially gripping and fast-paced at the end. I promise you that you won't be able to put it down in the last 100 pages. The technical details are amusing (I actually know what an acoustic coupler is). John describes the scenery with a perfect choice of words that makes it come alive in front of you. If you are in the mood to read a good high-tech thriller, buy this book. That's what it claims to be, and I endorse that claim.
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Summary: Easy to read dribble
Review: This book was too easy to read. The pages fly by as Kidd and LuEllen banter back and forth, battling the evil US government and evil US government contractors. It takes about 290 pages to discover why the bad guys are willing to kill in order to prevent the public from finding out what they are doing. As an engineer, I found some of the technical details humorous. Sandford (Camp) certainly tried to make it plausible, but I don't think so. One thing I didn't like was the lighthearted treatment of our heroes' moral behavior. And the connection of internet friends that help them is beyond belief as well. All in all, the book is entertaining, but not suspenseful, and a little hollow.
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Summary: A good read
Review: This is a good, tight story, with interesting, believable protagonists. Too many popular computer crime related books and movies fall into -- the 'hackers' perform feats that are so jarringly impossible that they detract from the story. Sanford avoids this trap. It is clear from the Kidd books that the author understands his subject, and avoids the easy trick of turning his hackers into comic-book heroes. As with all of Sanford's books, this one is hard to put down once you start it.
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Summary: average sandford
Review: This books has traditional features of other John Sanford novels: again it is well written, again the ending is the weakest part of the story, again there is a constant droning of left-wing party line on the background. Plot is (while it is full of holes) better than one in average Sandford's ware, ending is more disappointing than usual, left wing dronning is at annoyingly moronic level: good guys are tieves and members of exterme left underground, bad guy is a Republican, former intelligence officer and has a ranch in Crawford, TX etc. etc. So, overal level is average.
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Summary: Kidd scores again
Review: Maybe it's because I truly enjoy using my computers, but I was enthralled with the trickery that Sandford came up with in his intriguing story of hackers, lovers, and nasty bad guys. Though Kidd is portrayed as a free and loose computer whiz, I didn't mind his over-the-top exceptional talents in hacking because I have heard of many like him in the real world. His relationship with his sometimes gal, LuEllen, varies from friend, to cohort, to partner in crime, to lover, with never a dull moment. Kidd and LuEllen seem to enjoy each other as they sneak around buildings day and night trying to get the better of their assumed bad guy. I found it to be 6 hours of very enjoyable listening as I commuted to and from work for several days. If you think it'll be similar to Sandford's very intense "Prey" series thrillers, it certainly is not. This one is more like the old Remington Steele TV series (oops, am I showing my age!) where you enjoyed the two characters interacting with each other as they solved the crime. The story wasn't always the strength, the likability of the characters was. I thoroughly enjoyed this Kidd mystery. Though it is very different in intensity from the Prey series, it is not inferior, just less intense. You'll enjoy it, too, as long as you know of this difference.
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Summary: Not great, but worth your time
Review: I dig technothrillers, and picked this up just before boarding a plane. Kidd and Lu Ellen are great characters, and would like to see them in future novels, along with their hacker buddies. However, the plot becomes a bit convoluted in the beginning, but seems to pick up steam at the end of the novel.
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