An exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California and the story of one brutal murder there that revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether for the country.
Ambitious, deeply reported ... The portrait of Woodward verges on cliché, which speaks more to the simple-mindedness of neo-Nazis than to any fault of Lichtblau’s writing ... An admirably vivid job ... Queasily of the moment, and evokes our present reality with frightening detail. One can only hope that someday its subject is relegated to the past.
Oscillating between alarming and infuriating ... It’s all here in clean, unflinching prose ... The book explodes with pulse-pounding tension as the police zero in on Woodward and unearth his crime. ... Lichtblau’s reporting is rock solid, but he could have used more real numbers rather than percentages to demonstrate the rise and spread of neo-Nazism, both within and beyond Orange County’s borders.
