The Fool's Run

Kidd is a series of novels by John Sandford, which is the pseudonym for John Roswell Camp the Pulitzer award-winning journalist turned novelist. The first novel in the series was The Fool’s Run that was first published in 1989 to achieve much popularity among fans of the author’s works.

Kidd the lead character in the series is an expert computer whiz/scam artist/ Travis McGee type of character whose ethics are among some of the most flexible. He is a master hacker and cracker and for the right price, he can solve virtually anyone’s problems. He is also an academic with a Ph.D. in software design, a master of fine arts in painting and a bachelor in electrical engineering. But he is not all brains as he also has skills in karate and also served in Strategic Operations in Vietnam in addition to experience on old school breaking and entering.

The first novel in the series is a suspenseful novel with an ingenious twist that takes one into the mind of two reprobate con artists planning the con job. Kidd is the leader of the team and is an artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal assisted by his lover LuEllen an equally adept criminal mind. The two play the game of high

When Bobby goes missing without a trace Kidd knows something must be wrong and heads to his house where he finds him dead – his laptop missing and his head smashed in. The secrets on the dead man’s computer are enough to convict Kidd and everyone else that used to hand out with Bobby. LuEllen and Kidd need to find the killer fast and track down the laptop before its contents are used against them. Moreover, Kidd would love to get revenge on the man that killed his best friend. But before they can even start tracking down the man, he start releasing the secrets held in the laptop. Suddenly, the stakes become that much higher and scarier not only for Bobby friends, but for a lot many other