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Author: Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Category: Other2

Published: 2019

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A fast-paced mystery where Murder on the Orient Express meets the Tour de France—someone's killing off cyclists one by one. There are cyclists willing to die to win a single leg of the Tour, taking suicidal descents at more than 90 kilometers per hour; but I also know there are cyclists willing to kill to win. Marc Moreau, a professional cyclist with a military past, is part of a top Tour de France team led by his best friend, an American star favored to win this year's Tour. But the competition takes a dark turn when racers begin to drop out in a series of violent accidents: a mugging that ends in an ankle being crushed, a food poisoning that doesn't add up, and two cheering spectators who become unexpected obstacles. The teams and their entourages retreat into paranoid lockdown, even as they must continue racing each day. The mountain inclines grow steeper and the accidents turn deadlier: a suspicious suicide, an exploded trailer, a loose...