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Artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal Kidd and his occasional lover and partner LuEllen return to investigate the murder of his old friend and hacker Bobby and the disappearance of his laptop, a machine that contains a host of secrets about Bobby's circle of friends and colleagues, including Kidd. Simultaneous.
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Just about everybody knows John Sandford for his long and successful Prey series. But just as well written and maybe more fun are his Kidd books, of which this is the fourth. Kidd is a professional thief for the Internet age: a cyberprowler, a hacker extraordinaire. In The Hanged Man's Song, he gets word that one of his key contacts--a superhacker known only as Bobby, whom Kidd has never met but has relied on many times--has disappeared. Kidd and an old buddy, both of whom could be compromised by data in Bobby's files, go looking for him. Finding his brutally murdered body draws them into a Hitchcock-esque intrigue that eventually involves stolen government secrets, crooked politicians, and a rogue CIA agent who's as crafty as he is creepy.
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While filling his tale with fascinating and authentic-sounding lore about the hacker subculture, identity theft, and security cracking, Sandford keeps the action brisk with plenty of white-knuckle chases, tense stakeouts, and hairsbreadth escapes. Couple that with a smart, agreeable narrator and a cast of vivid characters evoked with an old pro's ease, and you've got one winning thriller. --Nicholas H. Allison
John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist John Camp. He is the author of the Prey novels, the Kidd novels, the Virgil Flowers novels, The Night Crew, and Dead Watch. He lives in New Mexico.
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- PublisherSevern House Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0727860828
- ISBN 13 9780727860828
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages321
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Bobby, a super-hacker friend of Kidd's, suddenly disappears from cyberspace, and Kidd knows that isn't a good sign. Going over to his house, he finds him dead on the floor, his head bashed in and his laptop missing. The secrets of that laptop are potent enough to hang Kidd and everybody else in Bobby's circle - just to start with - so there's no question that Kidd and LuEllen have to try to track it down. But before he can get very far, the secrets start coming out anyway.and they're more staggering than even Kidd imagined. Because it's not just the lives of a circle of friends and colleagues now - it's about something much, much bigger and scarier. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR003143040
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Tight Firm Clean Copy - First Edition - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Not Illustrated. Laminated Pictorial Hard Card Cover With No Visible Wear. Unclipped Jacket Win Similar Condition. Seller Inventory # 008296
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