Sikh police circa 1939 He was a milkman by day. A ghost by night. His weapons were not bullets, but words. His battlefield was not a jungle, but the minds of a conquered people. And when the most feared secret police in Asia finally cornered him, he didn't surrender. He fought his way out. The Man Who Refused to Run Midnight. March 4, 1945. Kuala Lumpur. The  Kempeitai —the Japanese secret police, whose very name made grown men tremble—surrounded a house on Jalan Gallagher . They moved silently, their boots barely whispering on the ground. After three long years of hunting, they had finally cornered their prey. The "lion" was asleep inside . They were wrong about one thing. A lion is no easy prey . When Gurchan Singh woke to the sound of his home being breached, he did not surrender. He did not beg. He fought. With nothing but his bare hands and sheer desperation, he  knocked out three armed guards  and vanished into the night . The hunt would continue. But the lion had e...