Hellhound On His Trail

Authors: Sides, Hampton
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: HIS054000, BIO027000, HIS056000
ISBN: 9780385533195, Related ISBNs: 0307387437, 030771411X, 0307714128, 0385523920, 0385533195
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 320,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Edgar Award Nominee
One of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle

With a New Afterword

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King 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. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a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. With Hellhound On His Trail, Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.

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