Bad To The Bone

Racy thriller in which top pros in the Tour de France become ensnared in a Faustian pact with a sports doctor who guarantees success but demands the ultimate price: their lives. Appeared in 1998, the year of the sport's biggest ever drug scandal. Twelve years on it still seems grimly apposite. William Fotheringham's Top 10 Cycling Novels in The Guardian "Tour de France cycling and drugs. Surely the best insider novel on sport since 'The Hustler',...