Racing Through the Dark

David Millar’s memoir is a raw, gripping look inside the world of pro cycling — from teenage prodigy to Tour de France star, and then to the darkest corners of the sport. By eighteen he was living in France, racing hard, scraping by in rented rooms and tipped as the next big English‑speaking hope. A year later he’d made it: a pro contract, the dream life, the pressure, the expectation… and the cracks that followed.
Millar tells the story of how the high life spiralled — the late nights, the fall that shattered his heel, and the growing sense that doping was simply part of the background noise of the peloton. He’s brutally honest about why he crossed the line: the culture, the peer pressure, the money, the desire to stay at the top. His arrest forced everything into the open.
Five years on, clean and reflective, he lays out the full truth of those years with nothing held back. This is the inside story of a rider who lost everything, rebuilt himself, and came back determined to change the sport he loved.