The Empress File (Kidd) - Softcover

John Sandford; John Camp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425135020 ISBN 13: 9780425135020

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992

The ultimate con game thriller from the bestselling master of suspense, featuring the con artist team of Kidd and LuEllen.

About the Author:

John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize–winning 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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Camp's witty, engrossing sequel to The Fool's Run brings back artist/narrator Kidd, who makes the most of his skills as a kind of computer-mercenary. A beautiful black activist wants Kidd to help her oust the "respectable" people who are running the small Mississippi delta city of Longstreet, in the process lining their pockets. Kidd and friend/lover/burglar Luellen pose as arty tourists on a houseboat in a plan to flimflam the greedy gang and dig into their hidden bank accounts and stashes of diamonds, stamps, coins, etc. But the caper turns murderous as they run up against a sadistic chief of the department of "animal control." Playing the good guys off the bad, who are led by ditzy, dangerous Mayor Chenille Dessusdelit,sp ok Kidd and Luellen wonder if they'll escape with their skins, and the loot, as events sweep them to a gory climax and bittersweet ending. This is a fast-moving, stylish delight, with dialogue that crackles. Camp also writes as John Sanford ( Shadow Prey ) .
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• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0425135020
• ISBN 13: 9780425135020
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368