John Sandford - The Fool's Run

Four stars. Recommended.

This is the first Kidd and LuEllen novel. For a book--a mass-market thriller, no less--about computer hacking that was published in 1989, it hasn't aged a bit. Sure, the tech is old, but it's never silly in the way that some "hi-tech" books seem after the fact. This is partly because Sandford puts a lot of research into his books, but mainly because at its heart The Fool's Run is a fundmentally human story about crime and betrayal. Very good.