At its center is the enigma of James Earl Ray, who could be crafty one moment and appallingly stupid the next. 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. Ray was a nonentity, a toxic loser from a long line of the same, incapable of forming even the most basic relationships, while King had the power to capture, embody and mobilize the better self of a nation. and the International Hunt for His Assassin," is not - you can see how the pairing of killer and victim would stick in the craw. Even if you aren't inclined to credit the conspiracy theorists on this one - and Hampton Sides, the author of a new book about Ray, "Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. "There is no way a ten-cent white boy could develop a plan to kill a million-dollar black man," said the civil rights leader James Bevel of James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.
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