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A fresh and revealing look at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hunt for his killer.

Book Reviews. Book review: Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides, on James Earl Ray and the Martin Luther King assassination. by Brian Lynch on June 22nd, 2010 at 11:08 AM. 1 of 1 2 of 1.

In writing “Hellhound on His Trail,” historian Hampton Sides has undertaken a hugely risky proposition. He has pieced together a viscerally dramatic account of the last days of the Rev. Martin ...

“In early May 1967, three hundred miles downstream from St. Louis, the citizens of Memphis stood along the cobblestoned banks, enjoying the musky coolness of the river.” ...

There’s still a line between narrative history and entertainment, in other words, and Hampton Sides flirts with it in his new book about James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, “Hellhound on ...

Throughout Hellhound on His Trail, Sides’s fifth book and already a bestseller in the US, the author stitches together these and thousands of other facts, and the narrative often has a forensic ...

He found an astounding collection that helped turn his new book, “Hellhound on His Trail,” into something special. Though King’s life and death are well-tilled soil for historians, ...