WITCHES' BREW
A devilish mix of political corruption and sex slavery
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TEENAGERS AT RISK Sex slavery snatches 900,000 children a year WITCHES BREW A novel by CHARLES BREWER TOWILL
International gangs scour the world for beautiful teenage girls to snatch and sell into the massive and pervasive sex-slavery trade. It rakes in thirty-two billion dollars a year, and is one of the worlds largest criminal activities, second only to drugs.
Witches Brew makes this sordid trade a significant part of its story, a tale wrapped around the efforts of Tony Baydock, a former agent of Britains MI6 and the CIA now heading a private covert operation, to uncover the machinations of the suave and manipulative ambassador of the Desert Kingdom, a monarchy awash in oil. It is believed he is the fulcrum balancing multimillion-dollar political payoffs and the Kingdoms interests. An attempted assassination of the ambassador, a confidant of the President, reveals sexual perversions that enlarge Baydocks investigation. It leads to his rescuing ten young girls, including three Americans, from Dayir, the Kingdoms capital, just hours before they are to be auctioned off as sex slaves. Two American pilots, employed by the Kingdom, are also rescuedthey have flown hundreds of young girls and boys to Dayir and untold thousands of kilos of drugs there and to the U.S.
The ambassador and the Kingdom know that, if the girls and the pilots tell their stories, the ruling familys special relationship with the U.S, and the privileges they enjoy, would be in tatters. They determine the girls and pilots must die together with their rescuers. This leads to a mad chase across the Middle East and Europe. Baydock is in very dangerous territory with the specter of death always at his heels.
The romantic interest in the story concerns Baydocks patron, a Corsican-born billionaire who becomes devoted to the sister of a British diplomat, and Baydocks undying love for his Iranian-born wife, whom he had suspected of being a plant in a
previous assignment that could have led to his death.
SIDEBARS Apart from the obvious societal aspects of Witches Brew there are many others woven into the novel that are front-burner issues. These include: the part elitist institutionsthe Lyle Group and the Libertarian Club in the novelplay in the formation of U.S. foreign policy; cleansing Washington of the old boy networks and the quid pro quo between politicians and business magnates; the influence of the Middle East oil cartel, particularly of the Desert Kingdom; the possibility of the Kingdom suddenly switching its oil sales from dollars to euros and unseating the dollar as the worlds reserve currency; the unpredictability of oils future as reserve estimates are questionable; the Islamic view of American women whose new-found dominance they feel equates the erectile dysfunction of their men; Afghans poppy fields and the multibillion dollars of heroin produced from them that financially back al-Qaeda and international terrorism; Osama bin Ladens fanatical dedication to overthrowing the Kingdoms royal family whom he accuses of heretical practices; his hideouts along the Pakistan-Afghan border; and the pride of Muslim mothers in the martyrdom of their sons in the service of Allah.
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Multimillion dollars from the Treasury of the Desert Kingdom, a monarchy awash in oil, has corrupted all arms of the United States government and the indications are that its ambassador, a confidant of the President, is the fulcrum balancing massive political payoffs and the Kingdoms interests. Tony Baydock, a former agent of Britains MI6 and the CIA and now heading a private covert group, probes to make the connection. An attempted assassination of the ambassador reveals sexual perversions and enlarges Baydocks investigation, putting him on a tack into dangerous territory. The specter of death is always at his heels as he seeks to uncover the machinations of the Kingdoms ambassador and his Capitol Hill cronies.
About the Author
This is the second novel by the spry, 87-year-old British-born author who was a journalist before spending a career in the oil industry in which he served as a public relations executive in Iran, London, New York and Alaska. During three years in Iran, he survived a raging mob attack that killed and mutilated five others during the violent riots over oil nationalization. He spent thirteen action-packed years in Alaska before retirement in 1983.
As an insight into other facets of his life he: crashed in a Cessna 180 on Alaskas Mount McKinley and nearly froze overnight in an ice cave at thirty-five below zero; trekked to the Annapurna base camp high in the Himalayas where traces of Big Foot, the Abominable Snowman, were found; lived for ten months in World War II with the Kukis, a primitive pagan tribe of northwest Burma during an enemy-observation mission ahead of the Japanese advance towards India; and took part in the Zipper Operation, a massive sea-borne invasion of Malaya aborted by the nuclear bombing of Japan as troops were preparing to go ashore.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1959 and lives with his wife, Pamela, in northwest Connecticut. They winter high in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Central Mexico.