Many people will know Colin's brother Barry Crump, who as well as being a comedian, was the front face of Toyota Motor advertisements for many years.

He had a length of milking machine hose in his hand and I watched in terror as once more he laid into my brother Barry with a merciless thrashing that just went on and on. Barry just lay there as he always did, and taking it all. Then he turned on me - they were really ferocious blows. The weapon he had chosen was, without doubt, the worst we had ever endured. I yelled, I screamed, pleaded, cried, and of course, wet myself.

This book is Colin Crump's courageous and heart-warming story of growing up in a New Zealand farming family with his brother Barry.

Stories of often-idyllic country boyhood, running wild half a century ago, are interwoven with almost unbearable scenes in which an abusive father delivers brutal beatings to his spirited sons. In Endless Fear casts a powerful new light on the Crump story.

I keep reminding myself that the old man did in fact give me one very great lesson in life, all I had to do was not be like him."