"In this book Tim Adams sets out to explore what it might have meant to be John McEnroe during the turbulent 1980s, and in his subsequent lives, and to define exactly what it is that we want from our sports heroes: how we require them to play out our own dramas, and how the best of them provide an intensity by which we can measure our own lives." "At the heart of this book are two characters - McEnroe and Bjorn Borg - and the rivalry that defined them, a rivalry as compelling and dramatic as Ali and Foreman or Spassky and Fischer. Their great Wimbledon match of July 5, 1980 - the central event in Adams's narrative - was, as he writes, "a confrontation between two highly developed states of mind: a struggle between extreme consciousness and an absolutely studied containment of consciousness."" It's a book that will appeal to any tennis fan or serious sports reader.