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.
Key facts about The Fool's Run
John Sandford wrote The Fool's Run, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 January 1989. The book has 338 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425155721 to find the main one.
The Fool's Run is book 1 of 4 in the Kidd series. The series has 4 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Hanged Man's Song is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 January 2003.
Additionally, John Sandford writes Prey, Virgil Flowers and Letty Davenport as separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Revenge Prey is the latest published John Sandford book on file, from 7 April 2026.
About John Sandford
John Sandford is the pen name of John Roswell Camp, an American novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning former journalist best known for the long-running Prey series featuring Minnesota investigator Lucas Davenport. Beginning with Rules of Prey in 1989, the series follows Davenport from a state investigator who moonlights as a video-game designer to a senior officer with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, tracking killers across dozens of increasingly character-driven thrillers. See every John Sandford book in order.
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