Anton Klink's Reviews > The Ultimate Spy Book

It is OK for what it is. Some of the text is interesting to read and gadgets interesting to study, however too much of the pictures and text make repeat appearances throughout the book. It feels as if the author didn't have enough stuff to fill the book with so he decided to recycle stuff from previous pages to meet his agreed quota of pages. At times I also felt like I was touring a stuffy old museum. Many of the gadgets looked old, worn and rusty. True, this is how things age, however this is certainly NOT what they looked like when they were still in active service. I guess the subject matter is not one with a wide enough appeal to warrant restoring some of the items to former glory, but still - for a book about the subject, at least a few restorations would have been nice. As such, it is a nice overview of the subject matter and probably of more interest to younger readers, but for the general public I'd rate it at three stars.