Contents

Cover

About the Book

About the Author

Title Page

Author’s Note

Epigraph

Foreword

Prologue

1. Something I Had to Do

2. Ambition Bites Hard

3. Per Vincere!

4. The Vuelta: A Distribution of Resources

5. The Post Office

6. Giro d’Italia

7. Unfit to Race

8. ‘Tieni Duro’

9. Liquigas

10. Madrid

11. Falling into Place

12. The Tour

13. Big Time

14. One Tour Too Far

15. Vuelta a Asturias, Stage Five

Picture Section

Acknowledgements

Copyright