The Devil's Code

Its place in Kidd

The Devil's Code is book 3 in the Kidd series. It follows The Empress File. It is followed by The Hanged Man's Song. See the full Kidd reading order.

Kidd is a painter and elite freelance computer hacker in John Sandford's earliest series, launched the same year as Prey with The Fool's Run (1989) but told in a very different register — closer to a heist thriller than a police procedural, following Kidd and his partner LuEllen as they take on jobs that mix high-stakes computer intrusion with old-fashioned con artistry. Where Lucas Davenport works inside the law (however loosely), Kidd operates entirely outside it, giving Sandford room to write caper-thriller…