For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a
would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant
community, and the FBI informant who exposed it.
In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States,
three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over
one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that
complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly
wasn't enough. The men plotted to bomb a mosque, aiming to kill hundreds
and inspire other attacks against Muslims in America. But they decided
to wait until after the presidential election, so that their actions
wouldn't hurt Donald Trump's chances of winning.
An FBI informant befriended the three men, acting as law enforcement's
eyes and ears for eight months. His secretly taped conversations with
the militia were pivotal in obstructing their plans and were a lynchpin
in the resulting trial and convictions for conspiracy to use a weapon of
mass destruction.
White Hot Hate tells the riveting true story of an averted case of
domestic terrorism in one of the most remote towns in the US, not far
from the infamous town where Capote's In Cold Blood was set. In the
gripping details of this foiled scheme, we see in intimate focus the
chilling, immediate threat of domestic terrorism--and racist anxiety in
America writ large.
