Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Flaps and maps
Philip Ardagh admires the atttrention to detail that has gone into the design of Operation Red Jericho by Joshua Mowll but in the end feels a little cheated to find that the maps and other features contribute little to the story:
As for the maps, plans and so on, beautiful though most of them are, they're not integral to the story. They may look great, give a little background and add credibility, but they're not indispensable and neither do they contain "clues". Sure, you might spot a concealed room or gun that later crops up in the text but - with one notable exception - little more than that.
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