Word: covin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt there is more in the novel than meets the eye. Most of the important events take place offstage, but what does go on is baffling enough. Is Nellie head of a spirtualist cell or a covin? It is certainly one of the most peculiar books ever written by a novelist of undoubtedly great talents...
...Small children were frequently doped and shipped across in coffins provided with air holes. Many of the teen-age victims, believing themselves bound for a pleasant position on the Continent, went willingly. The unwilling victim was first "broken in" at the London clearinghouse, where she was brainwashed by a covin of resident witches who subjected her to a crash program of sex education. If she did not cooperate, she did not eat. Then, auctioned off in Brussels or Antwerp, then the chief centers of the trade, the girl was whisked off to the brothel that had bought...
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