Hellhound on His Trail
by Hampton Sides
Buy on AmazonNATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from the author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a President and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.…
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"“Hellhound on His Trail,” by Hampton Sides. It’s a gripping evocation of a seismic American tragedy — the assassination of Martin Luther King. Like any great book about the past, it illuminates the present with uncommon clarity."
By the Book: Dennis Lehane · nytimes.com