The Ghost Map is in entirety a sharp, thought-provoking read…

Johnson lies to rest any preconceived notions of drabness that may stem from the medical premise of the story, painting an entrancing portrait of early Victorian London with its largesse and splendour, gloom and garbage in equal measure. Interspersing his narrative with animated characters and fascinating trivia, such as the conjecture that people who purely slug liquor possess decreased vulnerability to infection owing to a majority of our ancestors being beer drinkers(!), besides compounding the quest for truth with a deft dose of suspense, Johnson weaves a multi-faceted account. His contention that for all their downsides of populations ripping at the seams and the consequent problems of debris dumping and waste clearance, cities still augur the optimum living solution for civilizations to breed in a global context and exchange cultures, is hard to refute. The climax may seem a wee bit gung-ho with everything upto Iraq being interlaced, but The Ghost Map is in entirety a sharp, thought-provoking read…

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative