Alejandro

When two plainclothes policemen arrested champion cyclist David Millar in a restaurant near Biarritz in 2004 for doping, it marked the beginning of a two-year exile from cycling and the end of everything else: his multimillion dollar contract with one of the biggest teams in the sport, his opulent lifestyle, the support of his teammates and closest friends, and the gold medal he’d won months before at the world championships. This candid memoir follows a young and idealistic cyclist from the early-morning streets of Hong Kong to the highest echelons of the sport in France where, overcome by ...

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«Resulta que, sin yo saberlo, mi existencia ha sido uno de los secretos mejor guardados de la Guerra Fría y que tanto mi madre como la CIA me ocultaron al mundo. Esta es la historia de cómo descubrí que mi padre era un espía». Durante casi toda su vida, Alejandra Suárez vivió con su madre una relación tormentosa y salpicada de secretos, pues esta se negaba a revelarle ningún detalle sobre quién era su padre. Dispuesta a conocer sus orígenes, Alejandra emprendió una investigación titánica que la llevó a descubrir que era hija de Aleksandr Ogoródnik, uno de los espías más...

The renowned gay figure skater describes how he overcome such painful times as the deaths of his loved ones and his struggle with drugs and alcohol while presenting his experience with the universal determination to never quit. Reprint.