Max McCoy's Hinterland

Andy Kelsey is a reporter who may have just stumbled on the story of a lifetime. He’s infiltrated a white separatist group in the Ozarks, an underground organization ready to fight and die—and kill—for their extreme beliefs. The deeper Kelsey gets in the group, the more he’s trusted, and the bigger his story becomes. Until he realizes the shocking extent of their scheme…

The separatists have finalized plans for a spectacular cataclysm that they hope will bring about Armageddon. What terrifies Kelsey is that they have the weapon and the means to achieve their mad goal. Will he be able to fight them from the inside without being discovered? Or has he gotten in too deep to ever get out? -- from the Publisher.

Although Hinterland is a work of fiction, the background is chillingly real. In the mid-1990s, a group of white supremacists and neo-nazis that called themselves the Aryan Republican Army robbed nearly two dozen banks across the midwest, in an attempt to finance an all-out race war. They even made a "recruiting video" while at their safehouse in Pittsburg, Kansas, in which they brandish their weapons and cash and intone, "Make no mistake... We are not cultists, we are your neighbors!" The FBI finally ran to ground the leaders of the gang, Richard Guthrie Jr. and Peter Langan. Guthrie hung himself in prison, and Langan was sentenced to a SuperMax high-security federal prison. Recently, however, Langan told an Associated Press reporter that much was still unknown by authorities about the organization, and suggested the Oklahoma City bank robber Timothy McVeigh had been the gang's getaway car driver. Guthrie, in a manuscript found after his death, left similar suggestions. Guthrie and Langan were part of a domestic terrorist network that believe white Anglos are the true children of Israel, that blacks and other non-whites were sired by Satan with Eve during a dalliance in the Garden of Eden, and that a catacylsmic battle between good and evil is imminent.