Wheel to Wheel - August Field

Autor: August Field

Editorial: Benito Books

Año: 13/10/2026

ISBN: 9798953540285

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Páginas: 310 pp.

Idioma: eng

EAN: 9798953540285

For three years, Julian Quill has carried Sastrugi Racing - a small Boulder-based American ProTeam with outsized dreams - on his back toward a single impossible goal: a Grand Tour wildcard invitation. The forty-four-year-old retired champion, nine Grand Tour stage wins behind him and a career-ending crash on the Col de la Loze in his bones, runs the team with a whiteboard full of wildcard math, a clean-racing creed, and absolute control. The October Copper Classic is the final argument; the committee?s vote lands in November. One bad headline between now and then, and three years of work are done. Which is exactly why Sastrugi?s embedded-coverage policy runs eighteen pages, and why rule one is written in 48-point type: no member of staff shall engage in a personal or romantic relationship with any credentialed journalist covering the team. The wildcard committee reads everything. And then Veloce Magazine sends Colin Rafferty. Colin, thirty-nine, has spent sixteen years covering cycling without becoming the story, and he intends to keep it that way. He?s in Boulder for six weeks and three races to write Inside the Long Shot - the unvarnished truth about the underdog bid, including the doping noise gathering around rival team Vireo. Falling for the fiercely guarded directeur sportif is not the assignment. But Julian laughs the real laugh at a team dinner, tells Colin off the record that he?s terrified, and looks at him in a corridor like a man reading a map he swore never to follow - and Colin, the professional observer, starts wanting to be tended instead. Every discovery becomes a trap: chase the Vireo story and the team looks guilty; sit on it and his editor smells a cover-up; fall for Julian and every scoop reads as compromised, every tender moment as a conflict of interest. The love may cost him the access, the access may corrupt the love - and the wildcard, the team?s whole future, hangs on which man Colin decides to be. Wheel to Wheel closes out The Grupetto with the season?s final push, a reckoning on integrity versus ambition, and a love story between two men who have spent their whole lives working - finally learning to let somebody in. Readable on its own; series readers will find Fabien and Dominic, and Rafael and Graham, established and happy in the background. Guaranteed happily-ever-after.
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