My main objection to "The Inquisition" isn't that it isn't a handy summary of a portion (although far from all) the published material concerning the Inquisition, but that it fails to do what it says on the tin.
"An illustrated guide to the Imperium's most secretive organization" my hairy backside. It's "an illustrated guide to the works of Dan Abnett with a few bits of Gav Thorpe and Andy Hall thrown in to keep the wargamers happy".
Even that, I could forgive. But I see it as the biggest missed opportunity the Black Library has ever achieved. A genuine "guide to the Inquisition", covering its known history, key events, internal structure, methodology, factions and politics could have been a tour de force to rival "Xenology".
Instead it was lazy, recycled trivia. It was the Black Library making a fast buck without the inconvenience of having to pay an author or do more than commission a handful of new artworks.
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