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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce, the founder and leader of the white supremacist and Neo-Nazi group known as the National Alliance, under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBIAgent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.

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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce, the founder and leader of the white supremacist and Neo-Nazi group known as the National Alliance, under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBIAgent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.
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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBIAgent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white-nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.

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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce Pierce, the founder and leader of the white supremacist and Neo-Nazi group known as the National Alliance, under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBIAgent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white-nationalist white nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.
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* PoliceAreUseless: At one point, the book describes an event where a man goes on a shooting rampage at a gay pride parade, killing dozens, and the police do nothing to stop it. One officer ''even stops another from intervening''.
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* TheApartheidEra: Yeager and his friends consider apartheid to be a good thing. Also, as noted below several protests against South Africa take place in the novel.



* {{UsefulNotes/Skinheads}}: Mentioned at least once in the book attacking interracial couples.
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* BlondesAreEvil: InUniverse example. During an apartheid protest, Yeager witnesses a protestor screaming at the delegation from UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica. One is an unattractive brunette and the other is a tall, blonde, Nordic woman. Yeager believes that the protestor is much more antagonistic toward the blonde than the brunette.
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* {{UsefulNotes/Skinheads}}: Mentioned at least once in the book attacking interracial couples.
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* {{Prequel}}: [[WildMassGuessing It has been theorized]] that this novel is a prequel to Literature/TheTurnerDiaries.

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See also ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' for Pierce's other, better-known novel.

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* DepravedBisexual[=/=]DepravedHomosexual: How all bisexuals and homosexuals are depicted.


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* StrawFeminist: How all feminists are portrayed.


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* WesternTerrorists: The protagonist.
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* TheApartheidEra: Yeager and his friends consider apartheid to be a good thing. Also, as noted below several protests against South Africa take place in the novel.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: As to be expected by a book written by a Neo-Nazi, any discussion of history is wildly inaccurate, such as blaming Jews for the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Bolshevik Revolution]], denying the Holocaust, and claiming Pearl Harbor was arranged by FDR to get the US involved in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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* MeaningfulName: "Yeager" is a corrupted form of the German word "jaeger," which means "hunter."
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* WouldHurtAChild: As noted, Yeager targets not only mixed-race couples, but their children as well.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination / MalignedMixedMarriage: Yeager starts by targeting people who are guilty of "race mixing." The first scene of the novel involves him shooting a white woman and her half-black child.

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* HalfBreedDiscrimination / MalignedMixedMarriage: HalfBreedDiscrimination[=/=]MalignedMixedMarriage: Yeager starts by targeting people who are guilty of "race mixing." The first scene of the novel involves him shooting a white woman and her half-black child.
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* BlondesAreEvil: InUniverse example. During an apartheid protest, Yeager witnesses a protestor screaming at the delegation from South Africa. One is an unattractive brunette and the other is a tall, blonde, Nordic woman. Yeager believes that the protestor is much more antagonistic toward the blonde than the brunette.

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* BlondesAreEvil: InUniverse example. During an apartheid protest, Yeager witnesses a protestor screaming at the delegation from South Africa.UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica. One is an unattractive brunette and the other is a tall, blonde, Nordic woman. Yeager believes that the protestor is much more antagonistic toward the blonde than the brunette.
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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBI agent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white-nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.

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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBI agent FBIAgent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white-nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.



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* VillainProtagonist: By sane people's standards, anyway.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: A given in White Nationalist literature.




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* SerialKiller: Yeager, at first.
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* CampingACrapper: Oscar kills Horowitz in the bathroom.

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* CampingACrapper: Oscar kills Congressman Horowitz in the bathroom.
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* CampingACrapper: Oscar kills Horowitz in the bathroom.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Oscar and Adelaide.
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* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Yeager starts out as a lone wolf killer but eventually becomes one of these by joining a group.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Pierce dedicated the novel to Joseph Paul Franklin, a serial killer who targeted mixed-race couples.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Pierce dedicated the novel to Joseph Paul Franklin, a serial killer who targeted mixed-race couples.couples.

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* DownerEnding: From a white nationalist's point of view, anyway. At the end of the novel, the government is still in place and the Jews still control the media.

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* DownerEnding: From a white nationalist's point of view, anyway. At the end of the novel, the government is still in place and the Jews still control the media. AndThatsTerrible.
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See also ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' for Pierce's other, better-known novel.

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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBI agent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white-nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.

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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBI agent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white-nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.
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* AuthorTract: If you couldn't tell already.
* BlondesAreEvil: InUniverse example. During an apartheid protest, Yeager witnesses a protestor screaming at the delegation from South Africa. One is an unattractive brunette and the other is a tall, blonde, Nordic woman. Yeager believes that the protestor is much more antagonistic toward the blonde than the brunette.
* DownerEnding: From a white nationalist's point of view, anyway. At the end of the novel, the government is still in place and the Jews still control the media.



* JackTheRipoff: Yeager inspires several copycat killers.

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* JackTheRipoff: Yeager inspires several copycat killers.killers.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Pierce dedicated the novel to Joseph Paul Franklin, a serial killer who targeted mixed-race couples.
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''Hunter'' is a novel written by white nationalist William Luther Pierce under the PenName of Andrew Macdonald. It centers on Oscar Yeager, a SerialKiller who targets mixed-race couples and children. He is eventually blackmailed by an FBI agent into killing off Jewish FBI and Mossad agents in order to facilitate the agent's rise to power. He also joins a white-nationalist group through which he starts a bottom-up media campaign to bring white nationalism to the masses through televangelism. Yeager's efforts result in greatly increased racial tension in the United States.

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* HalfBreedDiscrimination / MalignedMixedMarriage: Yeager starts by targeting people who are guilty of "race mixing." The first scene of the novel involves him shooting a white woman and her half-black child.
* JackTheRipoff: Yeager inspires several copycat killers.

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