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The Devil’s Code |
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 The Devil’s Code byJohn Sandford Putnam 320 pages, October 2000 ISBN 0-399-14650-4 Reviewed by Susan McBride The Devil’s Code is a Kidd and LuEllen book, the first new one in nine years, according to Putnam. It literally starts off with a bang when Jack Morrison, a computer genius working for a company called AmMath in Dallas, is shot dead. AmMath tells the police and the press that Morrison had fired on security guards, and Morrison was killed in self-defense. But Morrison’s sister, Lane Ward, a Stanford University professor, doesn’t believe her brother even owned a gun. Because of a past connection between her brother and Kidd, she shows up on Kidd’s doorstep and pleads with him to dig deeper into the incident. Using his underground computer contacts, Kidd learns that Jack may have had access to 'secret' AmMath zip disks. Kidd and Lane nearly find themselves going up in flames when they recover the disks from Morrison’s house. This convinces Kidd that Jack Morrison was murdered, although he can’t find anything on the disks except a satellite surveillance photo of a parking lot. So what’s going on? Kidd calls on his partner in crime LuEllen to probe into the murky situation. Further complications follow as the feds are after them both for supposedly being linked to a group called Firewall - known to have been tampering with the IRS computer system and filing false tax reports. The Devil’s Code takes a road trip across the state of Texas and involves more than its fair share of action. |
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