<p><b>'This belting read pulls off the nifty trick of making the kung fu legend's spiritual and combat ideas accessible' <i>Maxim</i></b><br><br><b>'Truly gets under the skin of this iconic figure' <i>Film Review </i></b><br><br><br>In the 1970s Bruce Lee emerged as the world's greatest fighting star - an accolade he has kept ever since. He battled to succeed in America in spite of the racial prejudice that denied him a starring role, eventually making films in Hong Kong that turned him into a star - the highest-paid movie star of his day. His controversial death, at the age of thirty-two when he was at the height of his powers, has given him a James-Dean style enduring appeal.<br><br> In <i>Bruce Lee - Fighting Spirit</i>, Bruce Thomas has written a complete account not only of Lee's life and death, but of the fighting philosophy he developed (jeet ku