On Monday Penguin will publish a new 400-page biography of Sir Peter Blake. In Sir Peter Blake – An Amazing Life, Blake’s former friend and colleague, Alan Sefton, apparently confronts the allegations that Blake profited from Team New Zealand and pocketed millions of dollars for himself.

According to Penguin’s publicity,

This will be a book that will not fail to tackle the rumours. It will destroy many of them, and won’t flinch from dealing with them.

Much of the book is claimed to be previously unpublished material, including the dramas of the America’s Cup racing, its controversial aftermath, Blake’s relationship with the Cousteau family, and finally his death on the Amazon River.

Other revelations will include Blake’s reactions to ‘the private agendas that developed within Team New Zealand 2000’.

This includes the personalities, the out of control egos, the split between the admin and sailors, and the effect this had on the team and the sponsors, and the tearing apart of the image that they had all spent years building up.

Looks like a promising addition to the existing Blake library, although given Sefton’s friendship with Blake, it’s unlikely to damage the myth.