Complex sentence: Huntley: not a reference in sight in his book, and I'm afraid I've found a lot of examples where he's lifted text from others' work, almost verbatim, and presented it as his own work.
Split into simpler sentences: Huntley: not a reference in sight in his book. And rather than him being a writer who appears to research his subject thoroughly, I'm afraid I've found a lot of examples where Huntley's lifted text from others' work, almost verbatim, and presented it as his own work.