http://lawschool.mikeshecket.com/criminallaw/statevkargar.htm
The Donks (amplified thru the MSM) are going to say that Webb was just practicing the novelist's craft by working in particularly vivid elements of the foreign culture.
Allen should probably not have touched this himself.
You are forgetting the immense amount of other dreck this man has churned out in his literary career. There is so much actual other filth in his books, the example you keep using won't matter a hill of beans.