On Friday, action actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris filed a lawsuit against the author and the publishing house of a satirical book about him. The popular actor claimed that The Truth about Chuck Norris: 400 Facts about the World’s Greatest Human is nothing else that “a lie” that unfairly exploits his famous name, as it is based on a satirical Internet list of “mythical facts” about him. Chuck Norris wants to stop the book’s distribution through this lawsuit.

The Truth about Chuck Norris: 400 Facts about the World’s Greatest Human, which was published in November by Penguin Group Inc., was written by Ian Spector, an undergraduate at Brown University. Spector even claimed that he met Chuck Norris for several times and he also thanked him for “playing along.”

However, Chuck Norris claims he never met Spector and that he didn’t authorized Penguin Group or its Gotham Books division to use his name, image or likeness in relation to commercial sales of this book. Furthermore, the actor accused the book to be spoiling his good image, as it depicts him as a callous and unlawful man.

The book in fact capitalizes on so-called humorous “mythical facts” that have been circulating as jokes on the Internet since 2005, poking fun at the action actor’s tough-guy image and super-man abilities. The book says, for example, that "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried," that "Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits," and that "Chuck Norris can charge a cell phone by rubbing it against his beard,” according to the lawsuit. "Some of the 'facts' in the book are racist, lewd or portray Mr. Norris as engaged in illegal activities," the lawsuit also alleges.

The suit was filed in Manhattan federal court; Chuck Norris seeks unspecified monetary damages for trademark infringement, unjust enrichment and privacy rights.