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Mystery The Devil’s Code The Empress File The Fool’s Run The Hanged Man’s Song ThrillerWritten by John Sandford
Read by John C. Reed, Bob Moore, Richard Ferrone
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Kidd and Luellen Series
The first two books were publish under his real name, John Camp, the recordings are not professional but are still listenable.. Keep in mind, while listening to these books that they were written in 1989, 1992, 2000 and 2003 before the advances in technology, but like all Sandford books they are intelligent and exciting thrillers.
1 The Fool’s Run – 7hrs 25min – John C. Reed
Kidd is a computer whiz, artist, and professional criminal. LuEllen is his lover, and his favorite partner in crime. Their playing field in on the cutting edge of high-tech corporate warfare. This time they’ve been hired by a defense industry corporation to destroy its business rival through computer sabotage. If Kidd and LuEllen can pull it off, they’ll reap millions. It’s the sting of a lifetime. One false move and it’s a lifetime sentence. As the takedown unfolds, everything goes according to plan. But their string of successes turns into a noose when the ultimate con artists find themselves on the wrong end of the ultimate con.
2 The Empress File – 7hrs 20min – Bob Moore
One stifling summer night in Longstreet, Mississippi, talented fourteen-year-old Darrell Clark ran home and was shot by cops, who had mistaken him for a purse snatcher. When the predictable cover-up starts, a group of black activists decide that the time has come for action against a corrupt city government. Marvel Atkins, their leader, links up with Kidd, the man with the plan to bring the city tumbling like the pack of Tarot cards he likes to consult. All he has to do is watch out for the Empress. The Tarot has warned him she is dangerous, but first he must find out who she is.
3 The Devil’s Code – approx. 9hrs – Richard Ferrone
“I’m into something a little weird here. I don’t want to worry you, but if anything unusual should happen, get in touch with Kidd, okay?” When the writer of this letter dies suddenly, allegedly burglarizing a software company, his sister turns to Kidd - artist, computer whiz and professional criminal - to find out what really happened. Before long, Kidd and his sometime partner/lover, LuEllen, are up to their necks in trouble…the sort of trouble that leads to flowers on a grave. Computer hackers, scientists and crooked businessmen all play their parts as Kidd gets ever closer to discovering the truth behind his friend’s death.
4 The Hanged Man’s Song – 9 hrs – Richard Ferrone
Bobby, Kidd’s genius hacker friend (”Bobby is the deus ex machina for the hacking community, the fount of all knowledge, the keeper of secrets, the source of critical phone numbers, a guide through the darkness of IBM mainframes”), goes offline for good when he is hammered to death by an intruder. Bobby’s laptop is stolen, which is bad news for Kidd as several of his more illegal transactions may be catalogued on the hard drive. Kidd needs to find the computer, break the encryption and revenge Bobby’s death. The trail leads from Kidd’s St. Paul, Minn., art studio to heat-stricken rural Mississippi and on to Washington, D.C., where Kidd uncovers a government conspiracy that threatens the reputations and livelihood of most of the nation’s elected representatives. One of the joys of the series is learning the tricks of computer hacking and basic burglary as Kidd and LuEllen take us to Radio Shack, Target, Home Depot and an all-night supermarket to buy ordinary gear, including a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew, to use in clever, illegal ways. The action is as hot and twisted as a Mississippi back road, but the indefatigable Kidd eventually straightens it all out and exacts a sort of rough justice that matches his flexible moral code.
My edit, thanks to the original uploaders for the first 2 books.