"Moore tells the inside story of some of the Tour's greatest modern exploits."

– Bicycling.com

"As he did in Slaying the Badger and Tour de France 100, author Richard Moore peers behind the curtains of the sport of cycling, sitting down with some of the Tour's modern icons, and its scoundrels, to unravel and recount strange tales from 20 great stages in recent Tour de France history."

– VeloNews magazine

"All [the Tour's] complexity and more is dealt with by Richard Moore in Etape, which offers a tour through the Tour de France...from 1971 through to 2012. It's almost like a Tour mix-tape, a collection of greatest hits, album tracks, and B-sides, some of which you are already familiar with, some of which you will be hearing for the first time."

– Podium Café

"Richard Moore is his own secret weapon. [He] is incontestably one of the finest published sports writers of our time. Etape is his finest hour. There will be a great number of books about the Tour de France published in the next month, but if your appetite for yellow extends to only one, make it this one."

– The Washing Machine Post

"A preview ride of the most crucial stages in history with award-winning sportswriter Richard Moore. The dramatic controversies and courageous victories prove why the Tour is the world's most iconic bike race."

– Triathlete magazine

"In Etape, the Scottish author has dug deep beneath the surface and found the more obscure, but fascinating tales from the Tour that will keep the reader entertained. The level of detail is astonishing."

– Canadian Cycling magazine

"All the world's a stage. Etape captures the best of them with the heroes delivering the most compelling of lines. Moore has selected 20 stages with the results not only defining a race but what it means to be a human being placed in the centre of events that strain every sinew and make extraordinary demands on one's emotional and psychological stability. The book is mesmerizing."

– The Scotland Herald

"Etape, then, is--like the Tour de France itself--complicated and that complexity is actually the hidden central narrative of the book. And, because of the way Moore handles that complexity, even seasoned fans of the sport may find themselves reaching the end of Etape and thinking of the Tour in a different light."

– Podium Café

"The entire book is fascinating."

– Scotland Daily Record