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ISBN
9780385523929
Book Title
Hellhound on His Trail : The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Item Length
9.5in
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year
2010
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2in
Author
Hampton Sides
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History
Topic
Murder / General, Social History, Law Enforcement, Criminals & Outlaws, African American
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
27.3 Oz
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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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 From the acclaimed bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder , a taut, intense narrative about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the largest manhunt in American history. On April 23, 1967, Prisoner #416J, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt, this nondescript thief and con man--whose real name was James Earl Ray--drifted through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he was galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. On February 1, 1968, two Memphis garbage men were crushed to death in their hydraulic truck, provoking the exclusively African American workforce to go on strike. Hoping to resuscitate his faltering crusade, King joined the sanitation workers' cause, but their march down Beale Street, the historic avenue of the blues, turned violent. Humiliated, King fatefully vowed to return to Memphis in April. With relentless storytelling drive, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel when 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 riveting cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the sixty-five-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Magnificent in scope, drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates one of the darkest hours in American life--an example of how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385523920
ISBN-13
9780385523929
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Book Title
Hellhound on His Trail : The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Author
Hampton Sides
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Social History, Law Enforcement, Criminals & Outlaws, African American
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, History
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.4in
Weight
27.3 Oz
Item Weight
27.3 Oz

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Publication Date
2010-04-27
Reviews
"Drawing on interviews and previously unpublished resources, Sides builds suspense....offers riveting details....[and]captures the zeitgeist of the 1960s....[readers] will be swept up in the narrative because Sides writes with immediacy, intimacy and the pacing of a thriller." Booklist,Starred Review "[An] engrossing study.....novelistic treatment....the result is a tragedy more compelling than the grandest conspiracy theory"--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Sides skillfully weaves his narrative as his books builds to the fateful conjunction...the results are a spellbinder that all interested readers will find hard to put down"--Library Journal,Starred Review "A riveting account of James Earl Ray's long quest to kill Martin Luther King, Jr. An expertly written study in true crime, vividly recapturing the mood of 1968." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Employing the same storytelling prowess he displayed inBlood and ThunderandGhost Soldiers, Sides ratchets up the tension.....reads like a crime novel worthy of Joseph Wambaugh or Michael Connelly." --Book Page Praise forBlood and Thunder "We see a panorama and a whole history, intricately laced with wonder and meaning, coalesce into a story of epic proportions, a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy . . . Sides fills a conspicuous void in the history of the American West." -New York Times Book Review "An ambitious and sprawling account of the winning of the American West . . . A riveting account of a vast swath of history with which few Americans are familiar." -The New Yorker "Stunning . . . Both haunting and lyrical,Blood and Thunderis truly a masterpiece." -Los Angeles Time "A brilliantly realized portrait on an epic scale. . . captures a pivotal moment in U.S. history in marvelous detail. . . . Authoritative and masterfully told." -Washington Post Book World "A beautifully written, mesmerizing account of the greatest American story between the Revolution and the Civil War. . . . Like Shelby Foote, he has mastered the grand, sweeping style without sacrificing the well-chosen characters, events and minutiae that bring history to life." -USA Today Praise forGhost Soldiers "Few stories are as gripping as the one that Hampton Sides tells here. . . . Mesmerizing" New York Magazine "Riveting and patriotically stirring." -New York Times "Thoroughly researched and artfully told . . . . A compelling story filled with colorful characters." -San Francisco Chronicle "The greatest World War II story never told." -Esquire, "Drawing on interviews and previously unpublished resources, Sides builds suspense....offers riveting details....[and]captures the zeitgeist of the 1960s....[readers] will be swept up in the narrative because Sides writes with immediacy, intimacy and the pacing of a thriller." Booklist,Starred Review "[An] engrossing study.....novelistic treatment....the result is a tragedy more compelling than the grandest conspiracy theory"--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Sides skillfully weaves his narrative as his books builds to the fateful conjunction...the results are a spellbinder that all interested readers will find hard to put down"--Library Journal,Starred Review "A riveting account of James Earl Ray's long quest to kill Martin Luther King, Jr. An expertly written study in true crime, vividly recapturing the mood of 1968." -Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Employing the same storytelling prowess he displayed inBlood and ThunderandGhost Soldiers, Sides ratchets up the tension.....reads like a crime novel worthy of Joseph Wambaugh or Michael Connelly." --Book Page Praise forBlood and Thunder "We see a panorama and a whole history, intricately laced with wonder and meaning, coalesce into a story of epic proportions, a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy . . . Sides fills a conspicuous void in the history of the American West." -New York Times Book Review "An ambitious and sprawling account of the winning of the American West . . . A riveting account of a vast swath of history with which few Americans are familiar." -The New Yorker "Stunning . . . Both haunting and lyrical,Blood and Thunderis truly a masterpiece." -Los Angeles Time "A brilliantly realized portrait on an epic scale. . . captures a pivotal moment in U.S. history in marvelous detail. . . . Authoritative and masterfully told." -Washington Post Book World "A beautifully written, mesmerizing account of the greatest American story between the Revolution and the Civil War. . . . Like Shelby Foote, he has mastered the grand, sweeping style without sacrificing the well-chosen characters, events and minutiae that bring history to life." -USA Today Praise forGhost Soldiers "Few stories are as gripping as the one that Hampton Sides tells here. . . . Mesmerizing" New York Magazine "Riveting and patriotically stirring." -New York Times "Thoroughly researched and artfully told . . . . A compelling story filled with colorful characters." -San Francisco Chronicle "The greatest World War II story never told." -Esquire, "[Sides] has pieced together a viscerally dramatic account....Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film....Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great suspense....spellbinding....[A ]bold, dynamic, unusually vivid book"--New York Times "Searing…Skillfully lifts the obscure details of the assassination out of the realm of historical elegy and translates them into a complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King to his killer. Sides's reconstruction of the assassination itself is searing and a reminder of how little we know about it. Relying on FBI recordes, memoirs and past historians' accounts, Sides re-creates Ray's journey from his prison escape in April 1967 to the moment when he fired the single shot that felled Dr. King. After the shot is fired, Ray takes flight and, like an extended episode of the old television show "Dragnet," thousands of agents begin their search. Sides's treatment of the killing is gripping." --Wall Street Journal "Impossible-to-put-down…HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL is a masterful work of narrative nonfiction, one that benefits from its author's considerable talent as both a researcher and a writer. And as a result of his efforts, we not only have a greater understanding of King and Ray, but also a book that is every bit as good as any of the fiction thrillers being written these days. Sides has made an art form out of what Truman Capote called the "journalistic novel. In fact, the best works in this genre are the ones that locate the dramatic within the known. And no one does it better than Hampton Sides."--Associated Press "A riveting re-creation of a tragedy…HELLHOUND doggedly pursues the story of MLK's murder. Magazines and newspapers have a name "tick-tock" for the kind of story that re-creates an event or decision as if it's unfolding all over again. Sides' compelling HELLHOUND is an extended tick-tock that reads like a tragic novel. Through Sides' use of novelistic pacing, details and descriptions, he creates suspense that will propel readers through a slice of history."--USA Today "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."--Los Angeles Times "Sides is a crack research artist with a feel for both halves of the American chronicle, the grandeur and the violence....meticulous....a page turner, and something more: It brings the disquiet of an era fully alive."--Bloomberg "Sides' account....is special for at least four reasons. First, his reporting on Ray's difficult-to-unearth squalid life constitutes remarkable journalism. Second, Sides' brand of literary journalism makes the saga compulsively readable. Third, Sides' re-creation of the effort to capture Ray, which begins on Page 166 of a book topping 450 pages, provides a law-enforcement angle that is fresh. Fourth, Sides is a Memphis native, so he writes about the killing staining his city with a passion that resonates.....Sides does, however, offer a character sketch that avoids portraying King as a plaster saint.....Compelling" --Dallas Morning News "Hellhound unfolds like a mystery--one read not for the ending but for all the missteps, gotchas and near misses along the way."--Time "It's as much thriller as history book and the compulsive story races along like a fugitive on the lam."--San Francisco Gate Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi'f=/n/a/2010/05/07/entertainment/e031249D17.DTL#ixzz0nGXGgIji "Sides' book, meticulously researched, reads like nothing so much as a novel....sense of immediacy...., "[Sides] has pieced together a viscerally dramatic account....Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film....Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great suspense....spellbinding....[A ]bold, dynamic, unusually vivid book"--New York Times "Searing
Skillfully lifts the obscure details of the assassination out of the realm of historical elegy and translates them into a complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King to his killer. Sides's reconstruction of the assassination itself is searing and a reminder of how little we know about it. Relying on FBI recordes, memoirs and past historians' accounts, Sides re-creates Ray's journey from his prison escape in April 1967 to the moment when he fired the single shot that felled Dr. King. After the shot is fired, Ray takes flight and, like an extended episode of the old television show "Dragnet," thousands of agents begin their search. Sides's treatment of the killing is gripping." --Wall Street Journal "Impossible-to-put-down
HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL is a masterful work of narrative nonfiction, one that benefits from its author's considerable talent as both a researcher and a writer. And as a result of his efforts, we not only have a greater understanding of King and Ray, but also a book that is every bit as good as any of the fiction thrillers being written these days. Sides has made an art form out of what Truman Capote called the "journalistic novel. In fact, the best works in this genre are the ones that locate the dramatic within the known. And no one does it better than Hampton Sides."--Associated Press "A riveting re-creation of a tragedy
HELLHOUND doggedly pursues the story of MLK's murder. Magazines and newspapers have a name "tick-tock" for the kind of story that re-creates an event or decision as if it's unfolding all over again. Sides' compelling HELLHOUND is an extended tick-tock that reads like a tragic novel. Through Sides' use of novelistic pacing, details and descriptions, he creates suspense that will propel readers through a slice of history."--USA Today "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."--Los Angeles Times "Sides is a crack research artist with a feel for both halves of the American chronicle, the grandeur and the violence....meticulous....a page turner, and something more: It brings the disquiet of an era fully alive."--Bloomberg "Sides' account....is special for at least four reasons. First, his reporting on Ray's difficult-to-unearth squalid life constitutes remarkable journalism. Second, Sides' brand of literary journalism makes the saga compulsively readable. Third, Sides' re-creation of the effort to capture Ray, which begins on Page 166 of a book topping 450 pages, provides a law-enforcement angle that is fresh. Fourth, Sides is a Memphis native, so he writes about the killing staining his city with a passion that resonates.....Sides does, however, offer a character sketch that avoids portraying King as a plaster saint.....Compelling" --Dallas Morning News "Hellhound unfolds like a mystery--one read not for the ending but for all the missteps, gotchas and near misses along the way."--Time "It's as much thriller as history book and the compulsive story races along like a fugitive on the lam."--San Francisco Gate Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi'f=/n/a/2010/05/07/entertainment/e031249D17.DTL#ixzz0nGXGgIji "Sides' book, meticulously researched, reads like nothing so much as a novel....sense of immediacy...., "Enlightening . . . a valuable contribution to the historical record [and] a memorable and persuasive portrait . . . Ray's desire to achieve something in life, Sides convincingly and originally argues, was first and foremost what sent him on his deadly trail to Memphis." --The Washington Post "[Sides] has pieced together a viscerally dramatic account....Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film....Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great suspense....spellbinding....[A ]bold, dynamic, unusually vivid book"--New York Times "Searing…Skillfully lifts the obscure details of the assassination out of the realm of historical elegy and translates them into a complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King to his killer. Sides's reconstruction of the assassination itself is searing and a reminder of how little we know about it. Relying on FBI recordes, memoirs and past historians' accounts, Sides re-creates Ray's journey from his prison escape in April 1967 to the moment when he fired the single shot that felled Dr. King. After the shot is fired, Ray takes flight and, like an extended episode of the old television show "Dragnet," thousands of agents begin their search. Sides's treatment of the killing is gripping." --Wall Street Journal "Extraordinary....remarkable journalism.....compulsively readable"--San Francisco Chronicle "Impossible-to-put-down…HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL is a masterful work of narrative nonfiction, one that benefits from its author's considerable talent as both a researcher and a writer. And as a result of his efforts, we not only have a greater understanding of King and Ray, but also a book that is every bit as good as any of the fiction thrillers being written these days. Sides has made an art form out of what Truman Capote called the "journalistic novel. In fact, the best works in this genre are the ones that locate the dramatic within the known. And no one does it better than Hampton Sides."--Associated Press "A riveting re-creation of a tragedy…HELLHOUND doggedly pursues the story of MLK's murder. Magazines and newspapers have a name "tick-tock" for the kind of story that re-creates an event or decision as if it's unfolding all over again. Sides' compelling HELLHOUND is an extended tick-tock that reads like a tragic novel. Through Sides' use of novelistic pacing, details and descriptions, he creates suspense that will propel readers through a slice of history."--USA Today "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."--Los Angeles Times "Sides is a crack research artist with a feel for both halves of the American chronicle, the grandeur and the violence....meticulous....a page turner, and something more: It brings the disquiet of an era fully alive."--Bloomberg "Sides' account....is special for at least four reasons. First, his reporting on Ray's difficult-to-unearth squalid life constitutes remarkable journalism. Second, Sides' brand of literary journalism makes the saga compulsively readable. Third, Sides' re-creation of the effort to capture Ray, which begins on Page 166 of a book topping 450 pages, provides a law-enforcement angle that is fresh. Fourth, Sides is a Memphis native, so he writes about the killing staining his city with a passion that resonates.....Sides does, however, offer a character sketch that avoids portraying King as a plaster saint.....Compelling" --Dallas Morning News "Hellhound unfolds like a mystery--one read not for the ending but for all the missteps, gotchas, "Enlightening . . . a valuable contribution to the historical record [and] a memorable and persuasive portrait . . . Ray''s desire to achieve something in life, Sides convincingly and originally argues, was first and foremost what sent him on his deadly trail to Memphis." -- The Washington Post "[Sides] has pieced together a viscerally dramatic account....Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film....Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great suspense....spellbinding....[A ]bold, dynamic, unusually vivid book"-- New York Times "Searing&Skillfully lifts the obscure details of the assassination out of the realm of historical elegy and translates them into a complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King to his killer. Sides's reconstruction of the assassination itself is searing and a reminder of how little we know about it. Relying on FBI recordes, memoirs and past historians' accounts, Sides re-creates Ray's journey from his prison escape in April 1967 to the moment when he fired the single shot that felled Dr. King. After the shot is fired, Ray takes flight and, like an extended episode of the old television show "Dragnet," thousands of agents begin their search. Sides's treatment of the killing is gripping." -- Wall Street Journal "Extraordinary....remarkable journalism.....compulsively readable"--San Francisco Chronicle Remarkable....The book is a window on the passions and contradictions of an era the hatred stirred by the civil rights movements, the battle lines within a single presidential administration, and a martyr who died just as his own flame seemed to be flickering amid dissension and disappointment.....Thanks to the skills of historian and author Hampton Sides, readers will feel as if they are standing on the ledge at the Lorraine Motel with King....moving....a page-turner....Its story is told so effectively and efficiently that readers will want to head back in time and pluck the bullet out of the air on that April evening, when the best and worst of America met in Memphis."--Christian Science Monitor "Impossible-to-put-down&HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL is a masterful work of narrative nonfiction, one that benefits from its author''s considerable talent as both a researcher and a writer. And as a result of his efforts, we not only have a greater understanding of King and Ray, but also a book that is every bit as good as any of the fiction thrillers being written these days.  Sides has made an art form out of what Truman Capote called the "journalistic novel.  In fact, the best works in this genre are the ones that locate the dramatic within the known.  And no one does it better than Hampton Sides."-- Associated Press "A riveting re-creation of a tragedy&HELLHOUND doggedly pursues the story of MLK's murder. Magazines and newspapers have a name "tick-tock" for the kind of story that re-creates an event or decision as if it's unfolding all over again. Sides' compelling HELLHOUND is an extended tick-tock that reads like a tragic novel. Through Sides' use of novelistic pacing, details and descriptions, he creates suspense that will propel readers through a slice of history."-- USA Today "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."-- Los Angeles Times "Sides is a crack research artist with a feel for both halves of the American chronicle, the grandeur and the violence....meticulous....a page turner, and something more: It brings the disquiet of an era fully alive."-- Bloomberg "Sides'' account....is special for at least four reaso, "Enlightening . . . a valuable contribution to the historical record [and] a memorable and persuasive portrait . . . Ray''s desire to achieve something in life, Sides convincingly and originally argues, was first and foremost what sent him on his deadly trail to Memphis." -- The Washington Post "[Sides] has pieced together a viscerally dramatic account....Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film....Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great suspense....spellbinding....[A ]bold, dynamic, unusually vivid book"-- New York Times "Searing&Skillfully lifts the obscure details of the assassination out of the realm of historical elegy and translates them into a complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King to his killer. Sides’s reconstruction of the assassination itself is searing – and a reminder of how little we know about it. Relying on FBI recordes, memoirs and past historians’ accounts, Sides re-creates Ray’s journey from his prison escape in April 1967 to the moment when he fired the single shot that felled Dr. King. After the shot is fired, Ray takes flight and, like an extended episode of the old television show "Dragnet," thousands of agents begin their search. Sides’s treatment of the killing is gripping." -- Wall Street Journal "Extraordinary....remarkable journalism.....compulsively readable"--San Francisco Chronicle Remarkable....The book is a window on the passions and contradictions of an era – the hatred stirred by the civil rights movements, the battle lines within a single presidential administration, and a martyr who died just as his own flame seemed to be flickering amid dissension and disappointment.....Thanks to the skills of historian and author Hampton Sides, readers will feel as if they are standing on the ledge at the Lorraine Motel with King....moving....a page-turner....Its story is told so effectively and efficiently that readers will want to head back in time and pluck the bullet out of the air on that April evening, when the best and worst of America met in Memphis."--Christian Science Monitor “Impossible-to-put-down&HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL is a masterful work of narrative nonfiction, one that benefits from its author''s considerable talent as both a researcher and a writer. And as a result of his efforts, we not only have a greater understanding of King and Ray, but also a book that is every bit as good as any of the fiction thrillers being written these days. Sides has made an art form out of what Truman Capote called the "journalistic novel. In fact, the best works in this genre are the ones that locate the dramatic within the known. And no one does it better than Hampton Sides.”-- Associated Press "A riveting re-creation of a tragedy&HELLHOUND doggedly pursues the story of MLK’s murder. Magazines and newspapers have a name – "tick-tock" – for the kind of story that re-creates an event or decision as if it’s unfolding all over again. Sides’ compelling HELLHOUND is an extended tick-tock that reads like a tragic novel. Through Sides’ use of novelistic pacing, details and descriptions, he creates suspense that will propel readers through a slice of history."-- USA Today "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."-- Los Angeles Times "Sides is a crack research artist with a feel for both halves of the American chronicle, the grandeur and the violence....meticulous....a page turner, and something more: It brings the disquiet of an era fully alive."-- Bloomberg "Sides'' account....is special for at least four reaso
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