How should an honorable man confront evil. Should he ignore it, with the excuse that it is not his responsibility? Should he ally himself with the evil, because that's where the "smart money" is? Or should he take up arms against it and fight it with all his strength and without regard for personal consequences, even if he must fight it alone.
Oscar Yeager, a former combat pilot in Vietnam and now a comfortable yuppie working as a Defense Department consultant in the Virginia suburbs of the nation's capital, faces this choice. He surveys the decadence around him, he sees it growing and he realizes where it will lead if it's not confronted, checked and extinguished. He finds that for him it really is no choice at all: he is compelled to fight the evil which afflicts his America; his conscious will not let him ignore it, and joining it is inconceivable. He declares war on the corrupt politicians and the scheming masters of the media who are the principle architects of the destruction, and the spiritual decay which has led his fellow citizens to tolerate it.
Like the author's other book, The Turner Diaries, it is an appeal to ordinary American's to take responsibility for what is happening to their country and their world; it is an appeal for them to change course before the nightmare scenarios that are explored in words on its pages become reality. Since first appearing, America has not changed course, and so now the message of Hunter is more important than ever
The Turner Diaries, a futuristic action-adventure novel, has been an underground bestseller for more than four decades. It chronicles a future America wracked by government oppression, revolutionary violence, and guerrilla war.
The Turner Diaries is much more than an action-adventure novel: It warns us of how American society might unravel if the immigration and racial policies being pursued then -- which are being pursued to an even greater extent today -- were allowed to continue. It is an appeal to ordinary Americans to take responsibility for what is happening to their country and to their world; it is an appeal for them to change course before its nightmare predictions come true. Unfortunately, America has not changed course -- and so the message of The Turner Diaries is more important than ever.
The Turner Diaries first appeared in the newspaper Attack in serialized form starting in 1975, with one chapter appearing each month. It was published as a book in 1978. This second edition was released in 1980. It is set in what was then the future -- the 1990s.
The book follows the adventures of underground fighter Earl Turner, as described in his personal diary, discovered 100 years after the revolution that swept away a corrupt and tyrannical regime, delivered America back to its people, and remade the world.