Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
The book is based on exhaustive research, including thousands of pages of FBI files [over 6000] and records from the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department. Marable also conducted interviews with the slain civil rights leader's confidants and security team, as well as witnesses to his assassination. Source
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"Marable concluded that only one of the three men convicted of killing Malcolm X was involved in the assassination.... The real assassination squad, he writes, had four other members, with connections to the rival Nation of Islam’s Newark mosque — two of whom are still alive and have never been charged."
"Malcolm X himself contributed to many of the fictions, Mr. Marable argues, by exaggerating, glossing over or omitting important incidents in his life. These episodes include
a criminal career far more modest than he claimed [At a time when Malcolm X claimed in the autobiography to have “devoted himself to increasingly violent crime” in New York, he was actually in Lansing, Mich., his hometown.],
an early homosexual relationship with a white businessman,
his mother’s confinement in a mental hospital for nearly 25 years and
secret meetings with leaders of groups as divergent as the Ku Klux Klan and the Palestine Liberation Organization. "