text: is it illegal to purchase the book "behold a pale horse"? i want to read it because i heard it contains great info. but my cousin said i'll get in trouble if i buy it? why? it's not illegal to buy the book, but perhaps the contents of the book may be controversial. i haven't read the book, but heres a summary of the "behold a pale horse" from wikipedia.  behold a pale horse is a 1991 book by william milton cooper. (isbn 0929385225)  written after cooper had been a member of the us naval intelligence briefing team of the commander in chief of the united states pacific fleet, the book details many of cooper's claims about the alleged influence of ufos on us government agencies, the new world order, the assassination of president john f. kennedy, the apollo hoaxes and other topics.  another claim made in the book pertains to his own death. william cooper, seemingly paranoid, claimed that he would be shot to death on his own property. true to his "fate," he was gunned down in precisely this manner years after publishing the book and settling down in arizona. however, prior to his move, cooper had confided to a neighbor of many years that he expressed a wish to be involved in a shootout with federal employees in order to vent his anger about the government.  the title of the book alludes to a passage in the bible, revelation 6:8: "and i looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him."