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Summary: Boring..boring..boring
Review: I too was eagerly awiting a new Sandford book. Unfortunately, this was not the book I expected. It was extremely difficult to get intoand I only finished it because I forced myself to. The plot was too convoluted and impossible to follow. We expect more from this author...
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Summary: OK, I guess
Review: I did not like it as well as his Prey series. The characters were just there and did not really care about anyone. Almost too simplistic. Would probably read another one hoping that would be better. Did like LuEllen though.
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Summary: I basically liked it
Review: I'm a "Prey" fan, and was happy to find an additional series by the same author. I read the other two Kidd novels in paperback, and enjoyed them both. This one is written intelligently, like all of Sandford's novels; I can't stand books that are written for 5th graders.I confess to being in the computer field, which I think would make a difference in this novel. It's kind of odd: if you don't enjoy the details you might not be able to follow it, but on the other hand I don't think it has the kind of hard-core details for the true techies. The characters are kind of lightly drawn; I thought that LuEllen started sounding like the woman assasin in the last Prey novel. I also felt that the novel wandered somewhere in the middle; not quite enough involvement in the characters and not enough plot to go around. I might have been happier with this novel if it had been published in paperback; with lower expectations I think he would get a better response. You might be happier waiting for the paperback.
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Summary: An enjoyable read
Review: Okay, Kidd is pretty good, but he's no Lucas Davenport. Go back and find the first two in the series and enjoy them as well. It's best to read them first, and then this one as there are many references to what has gone before.
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Summary: Surprisingly enjoyable
Review: I am a huge fan of the "Prey" novels and thought I would have difficulty getting into this new "anti hero" hero. But I was hooked from the first chapter. For those of us who are less computer literate, some of the jargon was confusing and I needed to read carefully and then re-read some to understand what was going on. I enjoyed learning about the internet and was intrigued by the use of the internet in the plot. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
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Summary: Boring if you're a Computer Geek, Dreadful if You're Not!
Review: I, too, cannot finish this book. It is extremely painful and a disappointment if you are a true "Prey" fan. Even the writing style does not seem part of John Sandford's repertorire. If this book is on the best seller list, it is simply resting on the laurels of the Sandford name. However, once word of mouth spreads, this book is history.
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Summary: Read a good Kidd
Review: An old friend has been murdered and Kidd enlists Luanne and a network of friends to mete out punishment. An interesting change of pace from Sandford's other novels gets a little slow in the middle,but contains enough off-beat information to keep a reader going. Good action and a different view point hooks us for more in the series.
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Summary: Glad to see Kidd & LuEllen again
Review: Thank you John Sanford for giving us another Kidd-LuEllen installment. For those of you who missed the first 2 books of this series it is well worth hunting them down and reading them first. This series is very different from Lucas Davenport, but just as good.
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Summary: THE KIDD NOVELS AREN'T NEARLY AS GOOD AS THE PREY ONES!
Review: I hope "The Devil's Code" is John Sandford's last Non-Prey novel because it just doesn't compare to Easy Prey and the other Prey's. "The Devil's Code's" plot is so much different than the Prey series that it is hard to enjoy it. I did not like the characters at all in this novel. One of the main characters is a professional criminal and the other one (his girlfriend) is a cocaine addict, AND THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE GOOD GUYS. The plot is quite interesting but confusing in some parts. The plot: Clipper II is a software program created by AmMath Industries, that the U.S. Government wants so intelligent hackers can not hack in to the United States's private and confidential files. The leader of AmMath, St. John Corbeil, is not a good man. He is using the millions of dollars provided to him by the US to create and run Clipper II for satellite spying activities. He then takes pictures of certain activities going on in those countries and uses them to his advantage. This is highly illegal and only Corbeil and his two goons, Hart and Benson, know about it. In order for the government not to find out about their illegal practices, Corbeil and his men create "FIREWALL," a fake group of hackers that are creating havoc on other govermenent organizations and the IRS. The government thinks that they are hackers doing the damage and they go off looking for them, but the truth is that it is Corbeil just creating a distration to throw off the NSA. Jack Morrison, a computer genius and Kidd (the main character's old friend), is hired to work on a separate computer for AmMath. Morrison and his partner, Lighter, are both killed because they end up uncovering what AmMath is doing. Lane Ward, Morrison's brother, Kidd and his girlfriend LuEllen, aka Mrs. Cocaine, are on the hunt to try and stop Corbeil and discovering how to bring his evil plan down and out of the open before more lives are destroyed. If you are a fan of LUCAS DAVENPORT, and don't like computer/hacker murder mysteries, then I can almost guarantee you that you will not like this novel. It is quite interesting (especially if you work for a computer company), but if don't like these kinds of novels then... wait for CHOSEN PREY to come out in MAY 2001.
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Summary: Thank you, John Sandford.
Review: I've waited a long time for this book, and you made the wait worthwhile. Nice to see Kidd and LuEllen back in harness again. Crackling dialogue and excellent pacing, and a pretty good McGuffin, too!
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