Kidd · Book 1
The Fool's Run
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN-13
- 9780425155721
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Fool's Run opens John Sandford's Kidd series, published in 1989 at 338 pages, the same year as Prey but told in a very different register: closer to a heist thriller than a police procedural, following painter and elite freelance hacker Kidd and his partner LuEllen as they take on a job mixing computer intrusion with old-fashioned con artistry. It's followed by The Empress File, with the four-book series staying prescient about hacking culture well ahead of most 1990s thrillers.
Its place in Kidd
The Fool's Run is book 1 in the Kidd series. It is followed by The Empress File. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425155721