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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Edgar Award Nominee
One of the Perfect Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco Chronicle
With a New Afterword
On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation used to be shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted around the country and mourners gathered at King’s funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day seek for King’s assassin that will lead them across two continents. With a blistering, cross-cutting narrative that draws on a wealth of dramatic unpublished documents, Hampton Sides, bestselling creator of Ghost Soldiers, delivers a non-fiction thriller within the tradition of William Manchester’s The Death of a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 at the largest manhunt in American history and brings it to life for all to look.