Published by Mainstream Publishing, part of Mainstream
Format: Paperback
£12.99
Author:
Bill Jones
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781845966065
£12.99
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EAN: 9781845966065
Published: 7 Jul 2011
The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared.
A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid £17 expenses. When he wanted to run, he was banned for life. His amateur status had been compromised. Forever. Now he was fighting back, gatecrashing races all over Britain. No number on his shirt. No friends in high places. Soon he would be a record-breaker, one of the greatest long-distance runners the world has ever seen.
This is his true story: The Ghost Runner.
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A terrific story - a comic strip hero made flesh, with all the human complications that entails
- Daily Mail
Tarrant's poignant story is wonderfully refreshing and beautifully told
- The Sun
A fantastic story of the underdog
- Metro
Makes fascinating reading
- Manchester Evening News
An astounding story
- The Independent
A remarkable story
- Sport
A grimly compelling account
- The Observer
Jones has unearthed and told quite brilliantly the tragic story of a man condemned not only be authority but also by his own stubbornness
- Sunday Times
Moving
- Sunday Express
Bill Jones worked for Granada Television for 27 years, where he was an award-winning documentary maker. He now works as a freelance writer and programme maker. He was researching a documentary about the centenary of the Manchester running club Salford Harriers in 1985 when he first came across the story of John Tarrant (a former Harriers member) and it has haunted him ever since.
