Hampton Sides is the author of the bestselling narrative histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound on His Trail, and In the Kingdom of Ice. His most recent book, On Desperate Ground, was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and is under development for the screen. Hellhound on His Trail, about the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hunt for his killer, was the basis of the acclaimed PBS documentary Roads to Memphis. Sides’ journalistic works have been frequently anthologized, and he is a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. He is now at work on a book about the fateful last voyage of Captain James Cook.