Lightning Strikes: The Lives and Times of Boxing's Lightweight Heroes

by Gerald Suster

Suster, Gerald

220 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Gerald Suster was a British revisionist historian, occult writer, and novelist. He was best known for his biographies of Aleister Crowley (The Legacy of the Beast) and Israel Regardie (Crowley's Apprentice), and many novels of horror and the occult.

While working in California, Gerald Suster met Israel Regardie and Gerald Yorke, two of the few remaining occultists who had studied directly under Aleister Crowley... and became a well-known figure in the London occult and pagan scenes.

In 1989 he became a tutor at Boarzell Tutorial College in Sussex; however his teaching career came to an abrupt end when he was featured in an exposé of his occult activities in the News of the World newspaper on 16 April 1989.[3] Suster sued the paper for libel... and got £80,000 of costs from them.

After the case, Gerald Suster & his new wife went on honeymoon to Madrid. On their return, he focused on being a full-time author, producing books of horror fiction, biography, occultism, and erotica. He called his new occupation "my most productive period of creative writing".

(Adapted from Wikipedia.)

Reviews

[Cwn_annwn_13 · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are several fighters featured in this book that were interesting enough in and out of the ring to warrant books of their own. Freddie Welsh, Benny Leonard, Roberto Duran, Barney Ross, just to name a few. But as far as being a general history of the lightweight division this is good.