A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir
New York Times bestseller ⢠The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an āurgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agentā (Joseph D. Pistone, New York Times bestselling author) by āone of the top undercover agents in the Bureauā (Joaquin āJackā Garcia, retired FBI agent and New York Times bestselling author).
When Scott Payne was growing up, an ā80s kid with a big attitude and a taste for sleeveless shirts, he could never have envisioned where heād find himself on Halloween night 2019. Having transformed into āPale Horseā and infiltrated the nationās 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 āHillbilly Donnie Brasco,ā 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 at some of the most pressing threats facing America today. Honest and inspiring, itās the story of a hero determined to take down a hateful armyābefore the unthinkable could come to pass.
A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Autobiography/Memoir
New York Times bestseller ⢠The thrilling true story of one man who risked his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States, an āurgent and exciting look into the life of an FBI undercover agentā (Joseph D. Pistone, New York Times bestselling author) by āone of the top undercover agents in the Bureauā (Joaquin āJackā Garcia, retired FBI agent and New York Times bestselling author).
When Scott Payne was growing up, an ā80s kid with a big attitude and a taste for sleeveless shirts, he could never have envisioned where heād find himself on Halloween night 2019. Having transformed into āPale Horseā and infiltrated the nationās 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 āHillbilly Donnie Brasco,ā 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 at some of the most pressing threats facing America today. Honest and inspiring, itās the story of a hero determined to take down a hateful armyābefore the unthinkable could come to pass.