Hellhound on his Trail

<p><i>Hellhound on His Trail</i> 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.<br><br>Hampton Sides follows in Ray's footsteps as he escapes from prison creates a new identity for himself and becomes convinced of his mission to kill King. <i>Hellhound on His Trail</i> is equally the story of King himself in his last months fighting to keep his ideals alive in the face of intensive FBI surveillance and his own exhausted frustration. <br><br>With relentless storytelling drive Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country one stalking the other until the fateful moment on 4 April 1968 at a Memphis hotel when the drifter finally caught up with his prey. Nationwide riots were sparked by the assassination followed by the largest manhunt in American history.</p>