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Tim Krabbé is a chess as well as a cycling enthusiast and one of Holland's leading writers. His many books include the noir novels THE VANISHING and THE CAVE. He lives in Amsterdam. Sam Garrett, a former wire-service correspondent, is the translator of THE CAVE, also by Tim Krabbé, THE GATES OF DAMASCUS by Lieve Joris and SILENT EXTRAS by Arnon Grunberg.

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A beautiful, quiet piece of work: unusual, plausible, moving and poignant
*Daily Telegraph, The Best Sports Books of All Time*

A classic. Like all the best sports writing, The Rider manages to convey the excitement, determination and skill of the competitors even to readers who have little or no knowledge of the sport
*London Review of Books*

He lays bare the athlete's peculiar mixture of arrogance and terror, viciousness and camaraderie, and the result is one of the more convincing love stories of recent memory
*New Yorker*

The Rider is a beautiful brute, as hard and fast as a thin wheel in a concrete road
*Observer*

Its 148 pages will flash by in a blur of reckless, high-speed pleasure
*Independent*

The Rider perfectly captures the grim satisfaction and endorphin-thrill that comes from riding a bike faster than you did the time before. It's also a reminder of the pure pleasure of reading
*Jon McGregor*

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