Descent: My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End Dekker Thomas Paperback

The Award-Winning, International Best-Seller "I have success, money, women. The world is at my feet. I've been lionized by the public and the press.

But in reality, the descent has already begun."At age 20, Thomas Dekker was already earning 100,000 a year--as an amateur bike racer. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. The next year, he turned pro and his salary quadrupled then rose again to 900,000 as he established his position as a super-domestique among Europe's wealthiest superteams.

The sport marveled at Dekker's rise as the young racer set his ambitions on capturing cycling's biggest prizes for himself. Before long, though, Dekker found himself corrupted by money, dazzled by fame, and cracking under the relentless pressure to perform at a superhuman level.In his tell-all book DESCENT: My