'I was never called Scruffy' - Rushdie set to sue over former bodyguard's claims
· Author says book portrays him as 'mean and arrogant' · Publisher told to withdraw memoir or face legal action

Twenty years after copies of the Satanic Verses were cast into pyres around the world and its author hounded into hiding after a fatwa against him, Salman Rushdie has once again found himself haunted by a controversial book.
But this time the words are not his own but those of one of the special branch officers who protected him. And the Booker Prize-winning writer is so unhappy over what he sees as the book's libellous portrayal of him as "mean, nasty, tight-fisted, arrogant and extremely unpleasant" that he is threatening to sue its publishers.

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