The fastest man alive, and most people have never heard of him.
Marshall "Major" Taylor was world sprint champion in 1899, drew crowds in Paris, Melbourne and Sydney, and held seven world records before he turned twenty-two. America spent his entire career trying to keep him off the track.
He would not race on Sundays. He was refused hotels, barred from tracks, and physically attacked on the boards. He kept winning anyway, and then the money went, and then the name went.
Eighty-seven chapters across three novels, told in his own voice and anchored to the documented record.
The three novels
The Spark, 1878 to 1897. Indianapolis, a bicycle borrowed from Gilbert Taylor's stable, a decade of locked gates, and a boy who turns professional at eighteen.
The Reign, 1898 to 1904. World champion. The crowds in Paris and Melbourne and Sydney. The Sabbath he would not break, and what it costs to be the best man on the track and the least welcome.
Retribution and Resurrection, 1904 to 1948. The decline, the failed investments, the memoir he printed himself and sold door to door, a pauper's grave in 1932, and a bronze marker in 1948.
Bought separately that is $23.97. The trilogy is $19.
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