The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour de France

By Daniel de Visé

Inside the dramatic world of professional cycling and the Tour de France through the life of one of America's greatest and path-breaking athletes

Launching just prior to the 2018 Tour de France will provide many media opportunities

Dramatic recreation of the 1989 Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race in history

Revelatory details about Greg LeMond's long confrontation with Lance Armstrong and over doping in the world of elite cycling

An inside view of a sport we don't usually see up close--Europe's most popular sport

Daniel de Visé is a multiple award-winning journalist and author. He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in deadline reporting for his coverage of Elian Gonzales and is the recipient of the California Reading Association’s Outstanding Journalism Award as well as the Educational Press Association of America’s Distinguished Achievement Award.

de Visé’s previous book was the critically acclaimed Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show, which received praise from Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic and author Tom Shales, New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, and Billy Bob Thornton, among others, and earned a starred review in Booklist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Release date: Jun 5, 2018
• ISBN: 9780802165794

Daniel de Visé

Daniel de Visé is an author and journalist who has worked at The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, and three other newspapers in a twenty-four-year career. His investigative reporting has twice led to the release of wrongly convicted men from life imprisonment; he shared a 2001 Pulitzer Prize. A graduate of Wesleyan and Northwestern universities, de Visé lives with his wife and children in Maryland. He is the author of I Forgot to Remember (with Su Meck) and Andy and Don.