BOOK REVIEW | Avid readers of the first volume of Kee Thuan Chye’s epic biography of DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang will recall that it ended abruptly in 1987 with the arrest of Kit Siang, his son Guan Eng and over 100 others under Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s infamous Operasi Lalang.

Some two years after that first volume “None but the Bold” - former journalist, playwright, actor and author, Kee has finally come up with the second volume, a task which took four years in all...