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.
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. -- David Walsh * Sunday Times
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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. -- Matt
Dickinson * 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.
-- Simon Briggs * Daily Telegraph *
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