Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin Audiobook

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• “Knowing how the era-defining story ends doesn’t make these parallel portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the man who killed him any less riveting.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Searing…A complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King to his killer…Gripping.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “A riveting recreation of a tragedy…Through Sides’ use of novelistic pacing, details, and descriptions, he creates suspense that will propel readers through a slice of history.”

  — USA Today

• “Viscerally dramatic…Spellbinding…Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages.”

  — New York Times

• “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

• “Enlightening…A valuable contribution to the historical record [and] a memorable and persuasive portrait.”

  — Washington Post

• “Nail-bitingly riveting.”

  — Newsday

• “Remarkable journalism…Compulsively readable…[Sides] writes…with a passion that resonates…Compelling.”

  — Dallas Morning News

• “Gripping, exciting, and engrossing…Hits us with the shuddering intensity of a high-speed collision.”

  — Times (London)

• “Remarkable…A window on the passions and contradictions of an era.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “Sides’ meticulous yet driving account of Ray’s plot to murder King and the 68-day international manhunt that followed is in essence a true-crime story and a splendid specimen of the genre—a genuine corker.”

  — Salon

• “A carefully researched and crisply written account…Sides crafts careful profiles of his major characters.”

  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• “Extraordinary…Remarkable journalism.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Impossible to put down…A masterful work of narrative nonfiction, no one does it better than Hampton Sides.”

  — Associated Press

• “Meticulously researched, reads like nothing so much as a novel…creating plenty of plain old-fashioned suspense that makes the reader’s heart pound.”

  — Oregonian

• “As urgent a page-turner as any crime novel—a feat Sides accomplishes without sacrificing historical detail and insight.”

  — St. Petersburg Times

• “An authoritative, engrossing narrative…Thoroughly researched but executed with the pacing of a fine novel and a dash of top-notch police procedural…Meticulous.”

  — Miami Herald