Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney recently indicted on felony charges in the Valerie Plame case, goes back to court in February. In the meantime, people are looking for more clues to the man — a lawyer, foreign policy guru, and a sometime novelist.
In 1996 Libby came out with “The Apprentice,” a steamy brew of murder and bestiality set in Northern Japan. First edition copies of the book are going for over a thousand dollars online. It is deep, stormy winter, and a young innkeeper–the apprentice–has witnessed the murder of a hunter out in the snow storm. When he returns to his inn the apprentice tells nobody about the crime he has witnessed.
Hear a short excerpt from the novel.
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Reading by Joe O’Connor, On Point Senior Producer
