fun but feels supplementary somehow, even though it does fit with the rest of the series: if it had come out at the time, it would have been a reasonable addition to the trilogy; it can’t bear the weight of a decade of expectation.

i would rate the stories/parts in the same order they come: the first really effectively creeped me out, a great, strange scary fragment; the second is ok, a bit long, felt some of the same apathy i had with Authority, although having read a few spy novels since, i could better appreciate what it was doing; third felt rushed, and blurred behind the narration