I'd be interested in hearing what the rest of you think of this book.
I was disappointed. Most of the material appears to come whole-cloth from ChessPub without updating the annotations. For example, in the Glek variation of the Classical KID (early exd) by black, Martin gives the game Atalik-Blehm (1999) calling the move 13 c5 "State of the art." Gallagher, in Starting Out: The King's Indian (an older book, and presumably aimed at the KID beginner) gives the newer game Piket-Nedev (2001) to show that Black's reply 13...d5! forces a draw with best play by White. Of course, the ebook on Chesspub is out-of-date too, so I guess I shouldn't pick on Martin.
I was bothered more by the feeling that the games were simply pulled from the archives and clustered together without attempted to find a common thread. In many cases the same IDEA (a label that pops up periodically games to make you feel like a secret is being revealed) is presented is a new thought in several games, not necessary placed sequentially either.
It is not a particularly optimistic book for the KID player either. What should you play against the Classical, for example.
7...Na6? "So I will simply say...that Na6 cannot really be a good move and will be proved so in time."
7...Nd7? "Black contents himself with a study position, but not much else."
7...exd followed by Nc6? "At present 9...Nc6 is out of fashion. I will try to highlight why.
7...Nc6 Maybe the mainline is the way to go? "Don't ask me to call the Mar Del Plate variation. I wouldn't venture past the 'NO ENTRY' sign."
Not very inspiring.
If you simply want to play through a lot of annotated KID games and hunt for ideas the book is not too bad, but I would treat it as a bound version of a dump of annotated games from Chesspub. If you subscribe here then I definately wouldn't buy the CD too.