On the Run - The Story of an 18 Year Flight From FBI Pursuit

On the cold, icy night of January 16, 1868, two policemen were shot and killed on an isolated dead-end street in Nashville, Tennessee. Eighteen years later, fugitives William Allen and Charles Lee Herron - on the FBI's Most Wanted List longer than anyone had ever been - were arrested in Jacksonville, Florida. Thirteen months later fugitive Steve Parker was arrested in Baltimore, Maryland. What happened on that tragic night - at the height of racial tensions in the South - and in the ensuing 21 years is the subject of this controversial, suspense filled book. Also recounted is the inside story of how the FBI relentlessly pursued the fugitives for nineteen years in the always, exciting, sometimes maddening case. Never before told, even in court, is the full truth of what happened at the scene of the shooting. Also recounted is how the five young black men fled for their lives and how three of them were tried for and convicted of first-degree murder, only to escape from prison. Also told is how they lived on the run with the FBI in hot pursuit and police and sheriff's departments nationwide on the alert. On the Run is a remarkable, sensitive book that asks the right questions and does not flinch from the painful answers. Ultimately it causes the reader to ask just how many other men and women continue to live as victims of the mistrust that prevailed at a time when America struggled for its soul as it faced the past and looked for its future.