The first American novel banned in the U.K. since Hubert Selby Jr's Last Exit to Brooklyn, Evil Companions is a controversial book of the '60s. Exploring connections between pleasure & pain, D. M. Perkins creates a scenario of what it would've been like had the hippie generation been as debauched & perverted as conservative onlookers thought it was. Delving into forbidden sexuality, it's a shocking & intriguing.