According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney’s indicted aide, is a writer who published a novel in 1996.

[Libby] is also a literature buff who spent twenty years writing his 1996 novel, The Apprentice, an erotically charged and suspenseful tale about a young man running an inn in rural Japan in the early 1900s who gets caught up in murder.

Neocons are a breed apart.