Hunter (Pierce novel)
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Preceded by | The Turner Diaries |
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Hunter is a 1989 novel written by
Hunter portrays the actions of Oscar Yeager
Similarities
Hunter shares with The Turner Diaries Pierce's depiction of the United States as overrun by
Pierce's rationale
In contrast to The Turner Diaries, Pierce decided to write a novel which shifted away from the idea of an organized group, to what an exceptional individual can do. Hunter serves a real educational process."[3]
Pierce dedicated Hunter to Joseph Paul Franklin who, the notice says, "saw his duty as a White man."[4] Franklin was a white supremacist serial killer[5] who murdered up to 22 people in sniper-style attacks.
Plot summary
The story is set in the United States, presumably during the late 1980s or early 1990s. It begins with Yeager driving around Washington D.C., with a rifle. In his personal campaign of assassination, he initially shoots racially mixed couples in parking lots. Over 22 days, his campaign leads to 12 victims in 6 shootings. In the narrative, Yeager is depicted as the
After several successful and increasingly ambitious attacks, Yeager is found and confronted by a senior agent of the FBI who himself is disgusted with Jewish control of the FBI and the American social situation. This agent blackmails Yeager into assisting him with his career by assassinating several Jewish FBI agents and targeting Mossad agents in the United States so that the agent can be appointed as the head of a newly formed antiterrorist secret police agency, assume increasing control of the United States and use his power to challenge and remove Jewish control of the government and media.
At the same time, Yeager's white nationalist group achieves growing prominence through the insertion of one of their members into a
Eventually, Yeager is faced with a dilemma when the government official for whom he has been working finally orders him to kill the undercover evangelist minister, whose efforts oppose the agent's intent to establish order and strike a temporary bargain with the Jews. Yeager attempts to avoid the assignment and then deliberately appears to bungle the assassination. At this point, Yeager is caught between the intentions of his government confederate (who intends to consolidate his own power and control over the government and reform the system from the top down after suppressing upcoming
Following this, the Jewish-controlled media side with the black rioters, revealing that the government official would have been double-crossed had he attempted to strike his deal. Yeager and the other members of the group, now under increasing government scrutiny, resolve to continue their efforts and to go "underground" to continue the fight against the system.
References
- ^ Goodbye, good riddance|Books|The Guardian
- ^ William Piere|Southern Poverty Law Center
- ^ Gardell 2003, p. 360.
- ^ a b Mills, David (May 16, 1993). "Don't Think Twice, It's All White". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 24, 2018.
- ^ Quietest Place in America Was Once a Hotbed of Racist Hate - The Daily Beast
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-8223-3071-7
- Griffin, Robert S. (2001) The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce, 1st Book Library. pp. 223–243. ISBN 0-7596-0933-0