The definitive account of Lance Armstrong’s spectacular rise and fall.

In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing when confronted with multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there-talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong’s version of the reality. She was mostly of the media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to become granted prolonged one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports activities.

At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himself, about Cycle of Is situated: Nov Lance Armstrong revealed through face-to-face interviews.

But this unfolding narrative is given depth and breadth by the firsthand accounts greater than one hundred witnesses, including family whom Armstrong had long since turned his back again on-the adoptive dad who gave him the Armstrong name, a grandmother, an aunt. Probably most damning of most is the taped testimony from the late J.T. Neal, one of the most influential of Armstrong’s many dad figures, recorded in the ultimate years of Neal’s existence as he lost his battle with cancer just as Armstrong gained fame for surviving the disease.

In the long run, it was Armstrong’s former friends, those that had once occupied the precious space of his inner circle, who betrayed him. These were the ones who dealt Armstrong his fatal blow by breaking the code of silence that shielded the general public through the grim truth about the activity of cycling-and the grim truth about its fantastic boy, Armstrong.

Threading together the vivid and disparate voices of those with intimate understanding of the personal and public Armstrong, Macur weaves a thorough and unforgettably rich tapestry of 1 man’s astonishing rise to global fame and fortune and his devastating fall from grace.