- Hardcover: 254 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus; First Edition edition (15 Feb 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701135409
- ISBN-13: 978-0701135409
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 358,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kidd would rather be painting but Maggie makes him an offer he can't refuse - $2,000,000 for hacking into the computers of the Whitemark Corporation. But Kidd and his team find their lives threatened by the Machiavellian defence industry. The author won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
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Format:Paperback
Ex forces, but nothing spectacular , more of your phone tap specialist with a brain hero, artist by and tarot card player by inclination. Approached by large Aerospace Projects Company to infiltrate a competitor (for $2mil) and using computer hacking skills - bring this other company down. With a couple of friends, one a lady thief and another male journalist- a manipulator of the Press and another hacker friend who we never meet except via the modem take on the assignment. Of course it all goes pretty well until after the scam is running, one of their number get's shot - this sends them into a shocked resonse - then they run. But they are also very very mad and decide to get back at it transpires is their employer who was not what he seemed and try to turn the tables in the only way they know how - with the odd rifle shot thrown in for good measure - well, he was in the forces! Good quick pace and interest, a little romance here and there and a lot of interesting computer speak but not too baffling. And a pretty reasonable ending to. Great book for taking on holiday - it won't let you down. All in all, a very good book - I for one couldn't really put it down once I started.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Fast-paced, computer hacking mystery that kept my attention!
24 April 1997
Format:Paperback
This book is part of a 2-book series. I read them out of order because of the publisher's comments on the back of each one. It said that The Fool's Run was the sequel to the The Empress File. It's actually the other way around......... I love these two characters... Kidd and LuEllen. They are very intelligent, ingenious and fun-loving people. I can't believe they get away with all of the mischief they cause, but its a fast, fun read. I'd love it if John Camp (Sandford) would continue this series! John Sandford writes very intelligent, suspenseful books. I'm already hooked on his "Prey" series. Every year I patiently await the arrival of the next sequel
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
THe First two thirds were good. the last third was great.
31 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book. AS Kidd gets his assignment, hires Luellen and Dace, and begins his project, it is just fast enough to keep you interested.Then, right around the time Dace dies, it really picks up. THe plot centers around this Tarot-reading, Computer-hacking painter who is hired by a military defense company to sabatoge another company's computer systm. This book was areally good read and I can't wait to read 'the empress file'
Industrial sabotage by computer
15 Jan 1998
Format:Paperback
I read this book until 3 am and finished it afer several hours of sleep. Kidd is hired to sabotage a rival company's computer system. He in turn hires a female cat burglar to help. I am a retired computer programmer and this book really held me.
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