The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France by Tyler Hamilton,Daniel Coyle

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.