Hellhound on His Trail - by Hampton Sides (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he is galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. February, 1968: a Memphis garbage strike. Martin Luther King joins the sanitation workers' cause, but their march turns violent. King vows to return to Memphis in April. Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great--From publisher description.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br>Edgar Award Nominee<br>One of the Best Books of the Year: <i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>, <i> St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i>, <i>San Francisco Chronicle<br></i></b></p><p><b>With a New Afterword</b></p><p>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 With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of <i>Ghost Soldiers, </i> delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's <i>The Death of a President</i> and Truman Capote's <i>In Cold Blood. </i>With <i>Hellhound On His Trail, </i>Sides shines a light on the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to see.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>Viscerally dramatic ... spellbinding ... Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages. --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/> "Impossible-to-put-down . . . a masterful work of narrative nonfiction, no one does it better than Hampton Sides." --<i>Associated Press</i> <p/>Gripping, exciting, and engrossing . . . hits us with the shuddering intensity of a high-speed collision. --<i>The Times of London</i> <p/>A taut, vibrant account....chilling in detail and particularly haunting in evoking the confusion and pathos in the minutes following the single crack of Ray's rifle. --<i>Los Angeles Times<br></i><br>An authoritative, engrossing narrative....thoroughly researched but executed with the pacing of a fine novel and a dash of top-notch police procedural....meticulous.--<i>Miami Herald<br></i> <br>Searing. . . . A complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King to his killer. . . . Gripping.--<i>Wall Street</i> Journal <p/>As urgent a page-turner as any crime novel -- a feat Sides accomplishes without sacrificing historical detail and insight. <i>--St. Petersburg Times <p/>"Remarkable. . . . A window on the passions and contradictions of an era....a page-turner.--Christian Science Monitor <p/></i>A riveting re-creation of a tragedy. . . . Through Sides' use of novelistic pacing, details and descriptions, he creates suspense that will propel readers through a slice of history.--<i>USA Today <p/></i>Enlightening . . . a valuable contribution to the historical record [and] a memorable and persuasive portrait. --<i>The Washington Post <p/></i>Meticulously researched, reads like nothing so much as a novel ... creating plenty of plain old-fashioned suspense that makes the reader's heart pound.--<i>The Portland Oregonian <p/></i>It's as much thriller as history book and the compulsive story races along like a fugitive on the lam.--<i>San Francisco Gate <p/></i>Sides' meticulous yet driving account of Ray's plot to murder King and the 68-day international manhunt that followed is in essence a true-crime story and a splendid specimen of the genre--a genuine corker."--<i>Salon <p/></i>Remarkable journalism. . . . compulsively readable. . . . [Sides] writes . . . with a passion that resonates.....Compelling --<i>Dallas Morning News <p/></i>Extraordinary....remarkable journalism.....compulsively readable. <i>--San Francisco Chronicle <p/></i>Hellhound unfolds like a mystery--one read not for the ending but for all the missteps, gotchas and near misses along the way.--<i>Time<br></i><br>Exhaustively researched, fast-paced and at times minute-by-minute telling....To Sides' great credit, this is a feat of shoe-leather reporting and research....astonishing....briskly alive.--<i>Austin American Statesman <p/></i>Meticulous....a page turner, and something more: It brings the disquiet of an era fully alive.--<i>Bloomberg <p/></i>A carefully researched and crisply written account....Sides crafts careful profiles of his major characters--<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch <p/></i>[Sides] masterfully recreates the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr ....Though the outcome is clear, we are nonetheless rapt--and then devastated.--<i>Time Out New York <p/></i>Nailbitingly riveting.--<i>Newsday<br></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <br>A native of Memphis, Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of<i> Outside </i>and the author of the bestselling histories<i> Blood and Thunder </i>and<i> Ghost Soldiers</i>. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.</p>
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