[An] incredible story of high-adventure and of a very moving personal journey

Graham Ratcliffe has experienced triumph but also tragedy . . . and for the very first time tells of his remarkable journey

A welcome addition to the history of mountaineering . . . an absorbing read

I was completely engrossed . . . this is pretty serious stuff . . . the writing is forthright and precise and the book gallops along at a riveting pace . . it's a must read

Reads like a detective thriller . . . a book that pulls no punches and tells it how it was

Discovers important omissions, bordering on deception, in a number of authoritative accounts such as Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Breashears' High Exposure . . . provides greater understanding of the key factors behind the decisions made that led to the tragic deaths

A blow-by-blow account that puts the reader at the heart of the drama (****)

Throws a whole new light on the disaster

Fascinating… Without losers, there are no winners

Thoughtful, witty

In this lively, rear-view account of largely unsung heroes, and a few villains, Leonard has managed the difficult feat of coming up with an original angle on Le Tour

Leonard extracts the dignity that sometimes exists in sporting failure; this is not the world of Armstrong, Keane or Pietersen and all the more appealing because of that

Celebratory and hilarious in equal measures, The Last Man revels in the travails of the underdog

This book does a great job of revealing some of the less well known stories from le Tour: well written, entertaining, and informative

This book is an entertaining account taking in everyone from stage winners and former yellow jerseys who couldn’t hang on, to a breakaway leader who stopped for a bottle of wine and then took a wrong turn, to a doper whose drug cocktail backfired

We know the winners of the Tour de France, but Lanterne Rouge tells the forgotten, often inspirational and occasionally absurd stories of the last-placed rider