The 'Beckham of his era', Moss not only dominated the back pages of the newspapers but regularly made the front pages with his glamorous, jet-setting lifestyle in the 1950s. He raced hard; he played hard. He was the James Bond of motorsport.

Here, at last, is a serious biography worthy of the great man - a sporting icon who was a hero to many a schoolboy. One such was author Philip Porter. Debunking myths, correcting many mistakes, and adding much new information - including previously unrecorded races - this is probably the most deeply researched motoring biography ever written.

Porter is the author of around 30 books, including several on motor racing and four written with Moss, but this is the book he always wanted to write. Two years' research has gone into this first volume of two, and it digs far deeper than any book previously published. Indeed, it must be the most in-depth book ever published on a racing driver; and probably any motoring personality.

This book, though, is no dry account. It is spiced with humour, tragedy and period flavour with liberal doses of quotes from Moss himself and his contemporaries; many of whom Porter has interviewed over the years. Here, in fascinating, authoritative detail is the ultimate work on arguably the greatest all round driver the world has yet known, a book worthy of a great man.