Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America

Mark Jacobson

Sep 2018 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Ray Porter

About this audiobook

We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America...

Faith in the government is at an all-time low, and political groups on both sides of the aisle are able to tout preposterous conspiracy theories as gospel, without much opposition. “Fake news” is the order of the day. This book is about a man to whom all of it points, the greatest conspiracist of this generation and a man you may not have heard of.

A former U.S. naval intelligence worker, Milton William Cooper published his manifesto Behold a Pale Horse in 1991. Since then it has gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, becoming the number-one bestseller in the American prison system. According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated—because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth—by his driver, an alien himself; AIDS is a government conspiracy to decrease the population of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals; and the Illuminati are secretly involved with the U.S. government to manage relationships with extraterrestrials. Cooper died in a shootout with Apache County police in 2001, one month after September 11, in the year in which he had predicted catastrophe.

In Pale Horse Rider, journalist Mark Jacobson not only tells the story of Cooper’s fascinating life but also provides the social and political context for American paranoia. Indeed, with the present NSA situation and countless other shadowy government dealings often in the news, aren’t we right to suspect that things may not be as they seem?

Ratings and reviews

I'm proud of him and he is 💯 💙❤️ percent A TRUE Godly Man who was in the world and not deceived by the facade of the Evilones and had the huevos to speak bold to the Truth. Now you and I have to be Mr and Mrs Bill. Bold like Apostle Paul and Bill Cooper 💪🙌. Hallelujah.

This is a must even if you haven't read Behold A Pale Horse.

This is a very good book that exposes all the secret 's of all the things do!!!!!!!

About the author

Mark Jacobson is a writer and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for his explorations of the seamy side of urban life and for his offbeat and witty take on popular culture. Mark is a contributing editor at New York magazine and a frequent contributor to The Village Voice, National Geographic, Natural History magazine, Men’s Journal, and other publications.