The award-winning story of Tyler Hamilton, who takes us deep inside the secret world of professional cycling and his years as Lance Armstrong's teammate.
Daniel Coyle (Author)
Daniel Coyle is the Sunday Times bestselling author of several
books, including The Culture Code, The Talent Code, The Little Book
of Talent and Lance Armstrong- Tour de Force. He lives with his
wife and four children in Homer, Alaska, and Cleveland Heights,
Ohio.
Tyler Hamilton (Author)
Tyler Hamilton raced professionally from 1995 to 2008, riding the
Tour de France seven times, and now runs his own company, Tyler
Hamilton Training, in Boulder, Colorado.
Daniel Coyle is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lance
Armstrong- Tour de Force. He lives with his wife and four children
in Homer, Alaska, and Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
Brilliantly detailed and wholly convincing: with Coyle's skill and
Hamilton's honesty, the book was always likely to be excellent.
This is no generalised or theoretical exploration of a doping
culture but a forensic description of how it worked. Armstrong used
to say there would always be sceptics who didn't believe in his
story, but now the sceptics are those who, ostrich-like, continue
to believe. They should be compelled to read this book, and though
the collision with reality will cause them to shudder, the good
news is that they will be riveted by a well-told story and will be
the better for knowing the truth.
*Sunday Times*
The broadest, most accessible look at cycling’s drug problem to
date.
*New York Times*
The news leaks about The Secret Race have vastly undersold its
importance. Tyler Hamilton's book is a historic, definitive
indictment of cycling's culture of doping during the Armstrong era.
Here's the reality. The Secret Race isn't just a game changer for
the Armstrong myth. It's the game ender. No one can read this book
with an open mind and still credibly believe that Armstrong didn't
dope. It's impossible. That doesn't change the fact that he
survived cancer and helped millions of people through Livestrong,
but the myth of the clean-racing hero who came back from the dead
is, well, dead. The book is the holy grail for disillusioned
cycling fans in search of answers. The book's power is in the
collected details, all strung together in a story that is told with
such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity.
*Outside magazine*
Astonishingly candid... an extraordinary confessional.
*The Times*
Riveting... Just about every significant detail in the USADA
evidence is here. And it is brilliantly conveyed by an insider who
can see both sides of the story: the institutional corruption,
which eats away at the culprits, as well as the crippling pressure
on riders to conform. We can expect plenty more books to be
published on this conspiracy, for it is arguably the most audacious
ever plotted in the world of sport. But it feels as though
Hamilton's is likely to become the definitive work on the
subject.
*Daily Telegraph*
The book that finally broke Lance Armstrong.
*Sport magazine*
The mysterious world of cycling holds a certain fascination in the
public consciousness - now more than ever following the recent
home-grown success in the sport. The Secret Race lifts the lid on
that world and delivers a shocking and jaw-droppingly frank account
of what it's like to compete at the highest level.
*Graham Sharpe, William Hill Sports Book of the Year*
A landmark publication... absolutely brilliant. The Secret Race
stood out because it fundamentally changed the sport it described.
I wish it hadn't had to be written, but it is a book that has to be
read.
*John Inverdale*
The insight into the sporting mindset is uncanny; the detail
unforgettable. A gruesomely compelling instant classic.
*Sunday Telegraph, Sports Books of the Year*
The book inspired in me not surprise so much as the occasional jolt
of shock at the grimy practicalities and the odd drop of my jaw at
the means Hamilton says that he, Lance Armstrong and others used to
stay ahead of the testers and the police... A deep insight into the
evidence that Armstrong refused to confront when he opted out of
arbitration in the case that the US Anti-Doping Agency had built
against him and his associates.
*Observer*
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