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Pale Horse Coming anyone else. They go their separate ways and Earl returns home to Arkansas and his wife and son. The fictional events of this novel allude to the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. However the copyright page of the book bears the boilerplate disclaimer that all events are fictional. Pale Horse Coming Pale Horse Coming () is a novel by Stephen Hunter published in 2001. It is his second book in the series featuring the character of Earl Swagger. Sam Vincent, an attorney, is hired by Davis Trugood, a Chicago lawyer to verify the death of