Longtime Neo-Nazi Activist Steven Speece Penned Racist Novel Jack鈥檚 War
One of the more popular novels in racist circles is Jack鈥檚 War: Through the Gates of Hell, published last year. A crazy racial revenge story, the novel was put out under the pseudonym C.C. Conrad. Turns out C.C. Conrad is the Mobile, Ala.-based Steven Speece, a longtime activist.
Speece was for years a key member of the , which until the early 2000s was the most important and dangerous neo-Nazi group in the country (for a list of its members鈥� crimes, read ). Speece distributed the group鈥檚 literature and attended its leadership conference in April 2000 (right). He was at one time involved in White Aryan Resistance and various groups.
Speece鈥檚 self-published book tells a vicious tale of 鈥渨hen inner city savages鈥� [meaning black people] 鈥渂rutally rape and murder [Jack Corr鈥檚] beautiful fianc茅e.鈥� Corr comes to realize that it was his mistake to have talked to his fianc茅e鈥檚 attackers, who as minorities, he comes to realize, could never be trusted. The justice system fails Corr, so he decides to take matters into his own hands and 鈥渕ake war.鈥� The resulting violence, which includes a bombing and murders, is brutal.
Repeated requests by phone for comment from Speece were not returned.
This is just one in a long stream of racial revenge novels, the most notable being , that have been put out by white supremacists. Penned by , the founder of the National Alliance who died in 2002, The Turner Diaries proved inspirational to Timothy McVeigh, who based his 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City on a scene from the book.
Jack鈥檚 War was edited by , who played a key role for years in the National Alliance, creating and hosting the group鈥檚 shortwave radio show 鈥淎merican Dissident Voices鈥� and editing its publication National Vanguard. Strom ultimately rose to become Pierce鈥檚 favorite aide. Strom also designed the cover of Jack鈥檚 War (right). Strom says of the work on his personal website: 鈥淐.C. Conrad will sweep the action-loving reader off his feet with intense scenes of anti-White murder 鈥� and righteous White vengeance.鈥� Strom also praises the book in a blurb on the back cover.
What鈥檚 not mentioned on the back cover, where Strom鈥檚 work on the book is credited, is his criminal history. On Jan. 4, 2007, federal agents arrested him near his home in Stanardsville, Va. Strom was charged with possessing and receiving child pornography, enticing a minor to perform sex acts and intimidating a witness, sending shock waves through the white supremacist world. In 2008, Strom was convicted on federal charges of possessing child pornography and sent to prison. He was released later that year and is again posting white supremacist materials on his two websites.
The other fan of Jack鈥檚 War, according to his back cover blurb, is 鈥�.鈥� He calls the work a tale of 鈥渏ustice obtained鈥� as 鈥淛ack Corr hunts down and destroys the monsters who murdered his sweetheart and destroyed his life plans.鈥� Long a mysterious figure on the web, Horus was recently unmasked by my colleague Ryan Lenz as Timothy Gallaher Murdock, 43, of Dearborn Heights, Mich. An avowed anti-Semite and one-time day trader, Murdock is single and lives in the basement of his parents鈥� home, where, he says, he cares for his terminally ill mother and dedicates his time to building up 鈥淗orus the Avenger鈥檚 Follow the White Rabbit,鈥� an online allegory designed to expose 鈥渨hite genocide鈥� and patterned after Lewis Carroll鈥檚 Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland.
It鈥檚 not surprising that Murdock is a fan of Jack鈥檚 War. It explicitly endorses Murdock鈥檚 idea that a white genocide is occurring and repeats one of his favorite sayings, including a specific part of what he calls 鈥渢he mantra鈥� that includes the line 鈥溾�榓nti-racist鈥� is a code word for anti-white.鈥� In fact, it鈥檚 not until Jack Corr hears these words from a white supremacist that his racist epiphany is triggered and he realizes he must go on his killing spree. No wonder Speece鈥檚 book earns Murdock鈥檚 high praise.
