For fans of Ill Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming towns 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 towns growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them directly wasnt 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 wouldnt hurt Donald Trumps chances of winning.
An FBI informant befriended the three men, acting as law enforcements 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 Capotes In Cold Blood was set. In the gripping details of this foiled scheme, we see in intimate focus the chilling, immediate threat of domestic terrorismand racist anxiety in America writ large.
