A BRUTAL PORTRAIT OF LIFE AT THE TOP

At age 20, Thomas Dekker was earning $150,000 a year-as an amateur bike racer. The next year, he turned pro and was soon swimming in more than $1 million as he established his place on one of Europe's wealthiest superteams.

As quickly as he rose, though, Dekker found himself drowning in a corrupting shower of blood bags, drugs, prostitutes, and money, and cracking under the pressure to perform at a superhuman level.

In this fast-paced, tell-all memoir, Dekker delivers a page-turning tear through one man's rise, fall, and redemption during cycling's EPO-fueled boom years. And Dekker is not alone: He names those who fell with him and those who aided his downfall. Yet he blames no one but himself.

You won't be able to turn away from this unflinching look at the sordid truth about the European peloton and what it reveals about professional sports.

"The most shocking doping memoir professional cycling has produced." -Daniel Friebe, author of Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal

"Each chapter is a conscious move toward self-destruction, and when the end arrives, the reader, too, feels ruined." -Erik Raschke, CyclingTips