Into the Devil's Den: How an FBI Informant Got Inside the Aryan Nations and a Special Agent Got Him...
by Ballantine Books

	Into the Devil's Den: How an FBI Informant Got Inside the Aryan Nations and a Special Agent Got Him...
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Book Description

In 1996, the<b> </b>Aryan Nations was considered to be the most dangerous white supremacist group in the United States. This brutally violent neo-Nazi organization dreamed of carving an isolated homeland out of the American northwest–a dream they would finance by robbery, intimidation, and murder. For years, the FBI had sought to infiltrate the<b> </b>Aryan Nations, only to be thwarted by the group’s extreme paranoia of new members.

Enter Dave Hall, a tattooed, 350-pound, six-foot-four former biker. A black belt in martial arts, he could fight, drink, and ride with the best–which is to say, the worst–of them. But Hall was no stereotypical biker. A thoughtful, articulate man blessed with a photographic memory and an unshakeable core of decency, Hall was looking for a new direction in life. After Hall was arrested for his minor<b> </b>involvement in a drug deal, FBI<b> </b>special agent Tym Burkey gave him a choice: go to jail or become an informant. Hall didn’t go to jail.

So began a most unlikely partnership, between a hell-raising former biker<b> </b>and a by-the-book FBI man. The oddest of odd couples, they would slowly forge a unique friendship based on trust and support–a friendship that Hall especially would come to value in the months and years ahead.

For what was supposed to be a short-term assignment grew to something much longer, and bigger in scope, as Hall became the Ohio Aryan Nations leader’s right hand man. And more and more, Hall suspected that a significant terrorist action was being planned, something on the order of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Yet with the clock ticking, Hall found his hold on reality crumbling as he was forced into behaviors and beliefs that repelled him. With the ever-present threat of discovery and death hanging over his head, he felt his psyche start to fragment, leading to estrangement from his family and friends, and vicious bouts of insomnia, night terrors, and panic attacks. But it was too late to back out. Together, Hall and Burkey would have to finish their dance with the Devil.

Harrowing and intense, this true-life thriller is a testament to bravery, dedication, and friendship–and a timely reminder that America’s homegrown terrorists can be just as deadly as those from overseas.

Reader Reviews

This is the story of Dave Hall, a rather ordinary guy, except for his size, who got recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the Aryan Nations group in Ohio. These white supremacists, fans of Hitler, were not too smart, but they were quite dangerous. Dave "hid in place" for more than two years, drowning in the race hatred rhetoric, taking notes on assassination plots and fantasies of creating an all-white homeland in the Pacific Northwest. He was at the mercy of weapons-lusting phony reverends, meathead mercenaries, and coke-snorting crackpots. His FBI handler writes half the book, and Dave's narrative is the other half. Luckily, Dave got out alive, with enough information to break up what was almost surely a plot to kill the famous Morris Dees of Alabama, the crusading civil rights attorney. If you are attracted to tales about the dangers of being a spy, and you think neo-Nazi types need to be closely watched, this book will certainly hold your interest. As a junior high student, back in New Jersey, I came from a somewhat racist strain of white citizens, and I got interested in what was then "The American Nazi Party" led by George Lincoln Rockwell. I never was a member or even knew a member. I just read their literature and quickly decided they were bonkers. Rockwell, an intelligent, handsome figure, was later killed by one of his fellow believers. That group was based near Washington, D.C. and was a forerunner of the groups profiled in this book. The bad guys Dave Hall helped collar hated Jews, Blacks, brown-skinned folks, liberals, gays, cops, government workers of all sorts, feminists, etc. Some of them justified their evil through the Bible, while others were grinding the axes of politics and social customs. We are better off for their demise, and Mr. Hall played a part in sweeping them off the national stage a decade ago.