Publisher Annotation: Four incidents in the Tour de France have alerted the police: an outrage, a violent assault, a suspicious intoxication and a supposed suicide. In more than a century nothing had disturbed the order of one of the most important sporting events in the world until now it is evident that there is a killer in the corridors platoon. Marc Moreau, a key member of the four-time champion team, is recruited to follow closely the fingerprints...

Shares the lesser-known stories of last-place finishers in the Tour de France, recounting the inspirational and occasionally absurd events that shaped their efforts.

In July 1986, Greg LeMond stunned the sporting world by becoming the first American to win the Tour de France, the world's pre-eminent bicycle race, defeating French cycling legend Bernard Hinault. Nine months later, LeMond lay in a hospital bed, his life in peril after a hunting accident, his career as a bicycle racer seemingly over. And yet, barely two years after this crisis, LeMond mounted a comeback almost without parallel in professional sports....