Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History

NATIONAL 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.

With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller in the tradition of William Manchester's The Death of a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.
With a New Afterword

Author: Hampton Sides
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 03/22/2011
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.25w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780307387431


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/17/2011 pg. 24

About the Author

A native of Memphis, Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of Outside and the author of the bestselling histories Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.