Hellhound unfolds like a mystery-one read not for the ending but for all the missteps, gotchas and near misses along the way. Yet despite almost daily death threats, King's murder wasn't inevitable, writes Sides it was the culmination of several factors, such as his refusal of police protection and Ray's extraordinary ability to pass through life unnoticed. Hampton is an editor-at-large for Outside magazine. His newest work, On Desperate Ground, will be published by Doubleday this October. Louis, the citizens of Memphis stood along the. HAMPTON SIDES is the author of In the Kingdom of Ice, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction. Edgar Hoover despised King Attorney General Ramsey Clark venerated him-assigned 3,500 agents and spent $2 million tracking down its man. ‘Hellhound on His Trail’ By Hampton Sides ApChapter 1: City of White Gold In early May 1967, three hundred miles downstream from St. James Earl Ray, the dodgy career criminal and escaped convict who murdered King and helped turn 1968 into the sad, tumultuous year that it was, is the man with the gun in Hampton Sides’. In the end, the ideologically fractured bureau-J. Hellhound unravels that myth by chronicling King's 1968 Memphis assassination, starting with James Earl Ray's twisted stalking of his victim across the South and concluding with what was then the largest FBI manhunt ever. His position as the martyred leader of the civil rights movement has become so solidified in the national psyche that the events surrounding his death have become equally mythologized. Few events in recent American history hold such lasting resonance as the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Hellhound on His Trail (Doubleday), 2010, is a nonfiction book written by author Hampton Sides, focusing on the characters and events surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 'Hellhound on His Trail' is a non-fiction book by Hampton Sides that tells the story of the manhunt for James Earl Ray, the assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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