Semi invisible man is a fascinating biography of the writer Norman Lewis by author Julian Evans. Norman Lewis was the best not-famous writer of his generation, & a better writer than almost all who were. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he wrote books that have survived better than all but a handful of novels. For twenty years Lewis spied for the British government, raced Bugattis before the war, lived in Ibiza after it, & was a crack shot, flamboyant host, & businessman with Mafia connections. Julian Evans’ portrait is a fascinating personal account of a suburban fugitive & adventurer; a writer of unsurpassed humour, wisdom & compassion for the ridiculous; the Defoe of our times.