Code Name: Pale Horse
How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
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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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March 25, 2025 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781797179339
- File size: 199441 KB
- Duration: 06:55:29
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- English
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January 13, 2025
In this gripping debut memoir, former FBI agent Payne details how he took down members of the Base, a white supremacist group, in 2020. Payne grew up in South Carolina and joined the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office in 1993, when he was 22. He was swiftly promoted from patrol to the narcotics squad, where he became a star investigator before joining the Bureau in 1998. In 2016, Payne joined the Joint Terrorism Task Force and started targeting domestic terror groups. After his bosses learned about the Base, Payne was assigned to infiltrate it, and joined the group’s military-style training program as a new recruit. Eventually, he came to regard the group’s scheme to ignite an all-out race war through vandalism, propaganda, and terrorist attacks as “the most dangerous and overlooked threat facing us today.” His work paid off with the arrests of multiple group members on conspiracy charges. Payne nimbly juggles a pulse-pounding account of his undercover efforts with a poignant glimpse at the toll his work took on his wife and young daughter. Fans of Joseph Pistone’s Donnie Brasco should snap this up. Agent: Larry Weissman, Larry Weissman Literary.
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