After three years in retirement following his record-setting seventh consecutive Tour de France win, bestselling author and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong announced his return to professional cycling. At the same time he launched a global cancer campaign to take the LIVESTRONG message around the world. "COMEBACK 2.0: Up Close and Personal (Touchstone Hardcover / Simon & Schuster; December 1, 2009; $27.99; ISBN 13: 978-1-4391-7314-5)" is Lance Armstrong’s first-person photo journal of his 2009 comeback season.
Renowned photographer Elizabeth Kreutz has been granted unprecedented access to Armstrong to deliver this intimate portrait of his life during a particularly remarkable season. 
COMEBACK 2.0 includes an introduction by Lance that frames his decision to return to competitive cycling followed by first-person captions accompanying the photos that narrate his comeback season beginning with the Tour Down Under, followed by the Tour of California, his spectacular crash in the first stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León race in Spain that resulted in a broken collar bone, the Giro d’Italia, and finally the Tour de France. COMEBACK 2.0 offers breathtaking views of the race stages as well as intimate, behind-the-scenes shots of his training, the surgery for his broken collarbone, life with his children, campaigning for cancer research, meeting with cancer patients and survivors, drug testing, and the birth of his son Max.
COMEBACK 2.0 captures the tremendous spirit of a passionate athlete—his perseverance, fierce determination, strength, the highs and lows. Lance’s hope is to “share my comeback with others in a visual way—to really give people a look at my life from the inside … all of my life: training, racing, goofing off, raising my kids, working for people battling cancer.” COMEBACK 2.0 is Armstrong’s deeply personal account of what it means to comeback—personally and professionally—win or lose.
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