Chilling

Recently read a book that was chilling. Written by Daniel Silva.

The story revolved around a white supremacist movement that had been festering, plotting, planning and growing, kinda underground, over a few decades. With a much bigger - MUCH bigger base of support than you would expect in a civilized country. Their ultimate goal was to take over the government of the country and cleanse the population so that it looked exactly as they wanted it to look. Meaning just like them.

Of course it was a work of fiction.

When they gained control of the government the plan was to harass the shit out of immigrants, beat them, cuff them, kill them, and deport them - at least the ones left alive. They would break every law and make up some of their own. If random citizens got caught up in the violence, so be it. 

This would all be done anonymously - masks, no badges, no visible ID - to protect the brave men and women performing the cleansing. Makes perfect sense.

The movement included and was backed by high-level politicians, billionaires, big business, lawyers, the military and other high-minded people.

Eventually the true patriots managed to thwart this plan before it could be completed, although it came very close to fruition, causing enormous death and suffering along the way.

A truly frightening read.

Thank God it was fiction.