THE SERIES OF EVENTS surrounding Floyd Landis's 2006 Tour de France was as

improbable as anything in the history of sports: He showed up nine seconds

late for the race's opening prologue, donned the leader's yellow jersey

twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in remarkable

fashion just before the Tour's final stage into Paris. Winning the Tour

should have been the culmination of a life's dream, but a mere three days

later, Landis was accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs.

Released by his team and threatened with the removal of his Tour title,

Landis went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to being

unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a doper.

Positively False is at once a memoir and a powerful indictment of

the unchecked governing bodies of cycling that have compromised the

integrity of the sport as a whole. From leaving the Mennonite community of

his youth in order to pursue his passion for cycling, to riding alongside

Lance Armstrong for three years -- with whom he shared the same work ethic

and competitive desire -- Floyd Landis details the highs and lows of his

career with unabashed honesty. It is this same honesty with which he will

clear his name once and for all, as he lays bare the inner workings of the

cycling world -- a place where athletes are subject to the antiquated

science, flawed interpretive protocols, and draconian legal processes of

the anti-doping agencies -- and finally lays to rest the scandal that

threatened to destroy everything he's worked so hard to achieve....

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