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Code Name: Pale Horse

How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis

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Pre-release: Expected March 25, 2025
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The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an "urgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agent" (Joe Pistone) by "one of the top undercover agents in the Bureau" (Joaquin "Jack" Garcia).
When Scott Payne was growing up, an '80s kid with a big attitude and a taste for sleeveless shirts, he could never have envisioned where he'd find himself on Halloween night 2019. Having transformed into "Pale Horse" and infiltrated the nation's most dangerous, fastest-growing white supremacy group, The Base, he was huddled with a cell of neo-Nazis in the backwoods of Georgia as they slaughtered a goat and drank its blood in a ritual sacrifice.

A decorated agent dubbed the "Hillbilly Donnie Brasco," Payne takes readers along with him on some of the most terrifying and riskiest assignments in FBI history. He went deep undercover with the lethal Outlaw Motorcycle Club in Massachusetts; to the front lines of the opioid epidemic in Tennessee; and infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Through it all, he stayed married to the love of his life, raised two girls, and spent his Sundays at church, sustained by family and faith.

Timely and unputdownable, Code Name: Pale Horse is a hard look a some of the most pressing threats facing America today. Honest and inspiring, it's the story of a hero determined to take down a hateful army—before the unthinkable could come to pass.
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      February 15, 2025
      An FBI agent recounts his years infiltrating white supremacist groups. Being an undercover agent, writes Payne, isn't much like the Hollywood depiction, though there's truth in the method-actor part of the gig: the need to become someone else. The agent/actor is out there mostly alone, without day-to-day support. "Undercover work," he writes, "can get pretty lonely at times. You never really get used to it." Joining the FBI after working as a vice and narcotics investigator for a South Carolina county sheriff, Payne, brawny and tough, was put to work infiltrating biker groups in the Northeast, busting corrupt cops caught up in the drug trade and the like before going deep undercover to track down violent supremacists. This wasn't the Ku Klux Klan, Payne writes, who are "basically your grandpa's white supremacists," but groups such as the Base, modeled after Al Qaeda (which means "the base" in Arabic), whose members are committed to the violent overthrow of the government. Largely disaffected rural people who are lightly educated and heavily armed, they call themselves "accelerationists," buying into the theory that once the U.S. is overrun by lawless immigrants and the feckless Democrats do nothing about it, "society will decline, and the country will burn," and the (white) nation will clamor for deliverance. Dubbed "the Hillbilly Donnie Brasco" and trained by the real "Brasco" himself (Joe Pistone), Payne runs with some ugly types to do his job--for one, a woman who takes him on to do home invasions and tells him, "If you need someone tortured, I like torture." The work, he writes in his tough-as-nails account, became even more pressing after the deadly 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Now retired, he intimates that there's plenty more to be done to curb supremacist radicalism, now in the ascendant. An eye-opening look at the small but eminently dangerous radical right-wing fringe out there in the shadows.

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