''You've got to get above things to see them clearly. You've got to see how things fit together, and the further away you can get, the clearer things will be.'
'Leon's father viewed the world from his air traffic control tower, but it is from under the velodrome that young Leon sees his father and the bikes tumbling down to the bottom, the riders helplessly tangled and twisted with their machines.
'Even on their long journey North, the velodrome is never far from Leon's consciousness. The sturdy Sam Ballard is a constant reminder as he pedals his racing bike furiously behind the car on its long journey, as is Eric, crippled in the fatal crash at the story's start. Eric collects facts, and the debate between facts and history, history versus possibilities, recollection versus reality, is at the heart of both the journey and this intriguing novel.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
