A KARATE expert who famously foiled a Brook Green robber has published a novel about apartheid that he has been working on for more than 40 years.
Neil Gevisser,60, made waves earlier this year when he came to the rescue of a woman who was being robbed by karate kicking the assailant. And now he hopes to create a stir in the literary world with his new book, The Tyranny of Truth, which chronicles his experiences of apartheid in his native South Africa.
Neil, already a published poet, began writing the book in the 1970s and, after taking a lengthy sabbatical to pursue his career as a specialist masseuse to the stars, rekindled his interest when he moved from London to New York.
The book is a fictional biography set in a house in the notorious District 6 area of Cape Town and tells the stories of the spies from both sides of the political spectrum who live together, all of whom are masking their agendas behind a sexual front.
Neil says of the book: "It has many layers and tells the story of serendipity and coincidence. But mainly it demonstrates how people from both the left and the right are, in the end, both as extreme as each other."
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