Despite the fact that I will avidly buy and read almost any book that comes out on Pro cycling I'd been holding off on reading Tyler Hamilton's much talked about 'expose' of his time in the Pro ranks. I'm not sure why...maybe I didn't want to put more money into his pocket and have my fantasies that performance enhancing drug use in the peleton was not the norm shattered.
Having finally bought the book, like many others, I didn't put it down until it was finished. It was like looking at events and characters you felt you knew well over the last decade or more, but from the other side. Definitely the dark side.
David Miller's excellent 'Racing through the Dark' gave a glimpse into the sort of pressure aspiring young riders are under when they join the Pro ranks...but this goes a whole lot further.
The detail and level of cross referencing that Daniel Coyle (the man who really wrote the book based on 60+ interviews with Hamilton) is staggering.
With SO much detail, names and places etc over the years, nobody who reads this could seriously believe that his description of the cycling world in this period is not accurate.
Very depressing for a 'true believer' such as myself.
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