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Code name: Pale Horse how I went undercover to expose America's Nazis

"For readers of The MAGA Diaries and Hate in the Homeland, an eye-opening and crucial true story of one man risking his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States. When Scott Payne was growing up, he never envisioned a future that included what happened on Halloween ni...

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Main Authors: Payne, Scott (FBI agent) (Author), Shephard, Michelle (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atria Books, [2025]
Edition:First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Payne, Scott > (FBI agent)
White supremacy movements > United States > Case studies.
Neo-Nazism > United States > Case studies.
Hate crimes > United States > Case studies.
Undercover operations > United States > Case studies.
Autobiographies.
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Summary:"For readers of The MAGA Diaries and Hate in the Homeland, an eye-opening and crucial true story of one man risking his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States. When Scott Payne was growing up, he never envisioned a future that included what happened on Halloween night 2019. Out in the woods of Georgia, he tried desperately to save a goat from being sacrificed in a ritual by a group of neo-Nazis without revealing that he was actually an undercover agent. Now, this retired FBI agent reveals how and why he infiltrated the rapidly growing American Nazi group, The Base. Known as the "Hillbilly Donnie Brasco," Payne was guided through some of the most terrifying and risky assignments in the FBI's history by his devotion to his family and his Christian faith. Timely and unputdownable, Code Name: Pale Horse is an unflinching look at one of biggest threats in national security, as well as an inspiring memoir from an American hero"--
Physical Description:246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.
ISBN:9781668032909
1668032902
9781668032916
1668032910
Author Notes:Scott Payne is a retired FBI Special Agent who spent twenty-eight years in law enforcement investigating cases against drug trafficking organizations, human traffickers, outlaw motorcycle clubs, gangs, public corruption, and domestic terrorists. He was also a SWAT team operator and instructor for firearms, tactics, and undercover operations. He lives in the southeast with his wife, two daughters, and dogs.

Michelle Shephard is an award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker who covered terrorism, national security, and civil rights for two decades as a correspondent with The Toronto Star . Her career has taken her around the world, including multiple reporting trips to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Guantanamo Bay. She is based in Toronto, where she lives with her photojournalist husband, a dog named Parker, and their cat Deep Throat.

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