The Amazon peer review system results.
One reader says:
"The author is also the editor of "A to B" magazine, a place where Brompton can seemingly do no wrong, and it's the same here. At times it veers into [the] sycophantic. Don't get me wrong; we have two Bromptons here and I love them dearly, but they are by no means perfect, and it's a shame some of the weaker aspects of the engineering and construction aren't addressed."
Yes fair point. But I am starting from the position that the Brompton IS a significant folding bike. (And does anyone want to argue that?)
And the book does cover parts that have failed, and have factory fixes, so it's by no means a whitewash of deficiencies.
The author also writes well enough that quite a lot of in-between-the-lines can be surmised without the reader needing to be hit over the head with it.