Hellhound on his Trail
The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
$44.73
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2011
Summary
Hellhound on His Trail is the definitive account of the assassination that changed America and the world.
This is the story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s. One was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr.
Hampton Sides follows in Ray’s footsteps as he escapes from prison, creates a new identi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780718192068 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0718192060 |
| Author: | Hampton Sides |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 353g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
A remarkable achievement… he manages to combine meticulous research with a writing style that captures the pacing and tension of a compulsive fictional thriller…a powerful, passionately felt retelling of an event that shook the world. – Siobhan Murphy * Metro *An exercise in pure narrative, a nonfiction thriller in which the pace quickens as we approach the late afternoon of Thursday, April 4, 1968. – Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *Viscerally dramatic… creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film… spellbinding… bold, dynamic, unusually vivid – Janet Maslin * New York Times *
About The Author
Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides is the author of the bestselling Ghost Soldiers, winner of the 2002 PEN USA Award for non-fiction, and Blood and Thunder, named one of the 10 Best Books of 2006 by Time magazine. He lives in New Mexico.
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