Hinterland

by Max McCoy

When journalist Andy Kelsey goes undercover to infiltrate a white separatist group in the Ozarks, he soon discovers that the dangerous extremists are plotting to unleash a spectacular and deadly weapon on an unsuspecting America that the group hopes will bring about Armageddon. Original.

370 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

Max McCoy is an award-winning journalist and author. He’s won awards for his reporting on unsolved murders, serial killers, and hate groups. In addition to his daily newspaper work, Max has written for publications as diverse as American Photographer, True West, and The New Territory. He’s the author of four original Indiana Jones adventures for Lucasfilm/Bantam and the novelization of the epic TNT miniseries, Into the West. His novels, including Damnation Road, have won three Spur awards from the Western Writers of America. His novels, Hellfire Canyon and Of Grave Concern, have also been named Kansas Notable Books by the state library. He's a tenured professor of journalism at Emporia State University, in east central Kansas, where he specializes in investigative reporting and nonfiction narrative. He's also director of the university’s Center for Great Plains Studies. His most recent book is Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River, from the University Press of Kansas.

Reviews

[Bill FromPA · Rating 3 out of 5]

An OK thriller,a number of info dumps, the first of which is introduced with a statement basically saying, "here is an info dump". Not particularly relevant to current alt-right activities, but touches on their ideology / mythology.