Tragedy of Kings: The Enemies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Economics of Hate

"As a crime fiction writer, I know you can't make this stuff up. As an American, I'm troubled that it is still so entirely believable—and topical—some fifty years later."
—Theresa Schwegel, Edgar Award Winner

In 1999, a largely unknown civil trial found government agencies guilty of conspiring to assassinate Martin Luther King. The verdict and other circumstances have cast doubt on initial findings that a blundering criminal named James Earl Ray operated as the lone perpetrator. Drawing from...