'Extraordinary.remarkable pulsively readable'-San Francisco Chronicle Sides’s treatment of the killing is gripping.' After the shot is fired, Ray takes flight and, like an extended episode of the old television show 'Dragnet,' thousands of agents begin their search.

Relying on FBI recordes, memoirs and past historians’ accounts, Sides re-creates Ray’s journey from his prison escape in April 1967 to the moment when he fired the single shot that felled Dr. Sides’s reconstruction of the assassination itself is searing – and a reminder of how little we know about it. 'Searing…Skillfully lifts the obscure details of the assassination out of the realm of historical elegy and translates them into a complex crime mystery that shifts the focus from Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great, dynamic, unusually vivid book'- New York Times ' has pieced together a viscerally dramatic account.Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film.Both Dr. Ray's desire to achieve something in life, Sides convincingly and originally argues, was first and foremost what sent him on his deadly trail to Memphis.' - The Washington Post a valuable contribution to the historical record a memorable and persuasive portrait.

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