"The holy grail for disillusioned cycling fans . . . The book's power
is in the collective details, all strung together in a story that is
told with such clear-eyed conviction that you never doubt its veracity.
. . . The Secret Race isn't just a game changer for the Lance
Armstrong myth. It's the game ender."--Outside
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK
OF THE YEAR AWARD
The Secret Race is the book that rocked the world of professional
cycling--and exposed, at long last, the doping culture surrounding the
sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong. Former Olympic gold
medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the world's top-ranked
cyclists--and a member of Lance Armstrong's inner circle. Over the
course of two years, New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle
conducted more than two hundred hours of interviews with Hamilton and
spoke with numerous teammates, rivals, and friends. The result is an
explosive page-turner of a book that takes us deep inside a shadowy,
fascinating, and surreal world of unscrupulous doctors, anything-goes
team directors, and athletes so relentlessly driven to win that they
would do almost anything to gain an edge. For the first time, Hamilton
recounts his own battle with depression and tells the story of his
complicated relationship with Lance Armstrong. This edition features a
new Afterword, in which the authors reflect on the developments within
the sport, and involving Armstrong, over the past year. The Secret
Race is a courageous, groundbreaking act of witness from a man who is
as determined to reveal the hard truth about his sport as he once was to
win the Tour de France.
With a new Afterword by the authors
"Loaded with bombshells and revelations."--VeloNews
"[An] often harrowing story . . . the broadest, most accessible look
at cycling's drug problems to date."--The New York Times
" 'If I cheated, how did I get away with it?' That question, posed to
SI by Lance Armstrong five years ago, has never been answered more
definitively than it is in Tyler Hamilton's new book."--Sports
Illustrated
"Explosive."--The Daily Telegraph (London)