Windows API hooking inc kernel and NTDLL. Is there an authoritative reference or teaching text?

If a developer wishes to learn how to hook windows APIs and gain modifications control over the system as a whole, including

say, hooking into kernel functions, NTDLL

Windows Internals 5th Edition (PRO-Develo开发者_运维技巧per) (Hardcover)

Is this the ultimate authority on this subject?

if not, what is?

The book you mention is very good.

For user space hooks, consider the following Programming Applications for Microsoft Windows by Jeffery Richter.