Press Office note: The whole book is based on a lie; this so-called FBI agent never infiltrated the ALF, but posed as an animal rights campaigner for a year or two before being called out by activists. That’s it. Fortunately, no activist ever really suffered from her largely incompetent efforts, but she is no less the snitch. Here is her personal website, in case anyone is interested: http://danaridenour.net/index.html. She may live in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

News Article: Huffington Post

Ever since Donnie Brasco, the story of the FBI agent who went undercover to infiltrate the American Mafia, America has not had a glimpse into the minds of undercover operatives who work in our country every day.

Now there is “Behind the Mask,” by retired FBI agent Dana Ridenour, a novel about FBI agent Lexie Montgomery, that will take readers into the Bureau’s undercover program. Montgomery’s first assignment is infiltrating a radical cell of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), an underground organization operating in splinter groups throughout Los Angeles.

One of the mottos of the FBI undercover training program is ‘you create relationships to betray them.’ This becomes all too real as Montgomery becomes entrenched in the radical under world.

Montgomery infiltrates the radical organization by befriending Savannah Riley, a new recruit.

Savannah left the safety of her small southern town for the bright lights of the city. Pulled into the animal rights movement by her college roommate and a gorgeous anarchist, she sinks deeper and deeper into the dark, paranoid world of ALF extremists.