Libby "Scooter" Lewis, potential felon and right-hand man to torture champion Dick Cheney, is also a man of letters. Proof of his prowess? Used copies of Scooter's 1996 novel, called "The Apprentice", are going for $700 on Amazon.com!

And why not? Lewis, a senior member of the neo-puritan Bush machine, has quite a vivid imagination. An article in the New Yorker contains excerpts from his book, which features bestiality, incest, pedophilia, corpse robbing, and other favourite secret pasttimes of the fundamentalist right. An example:

At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.

One thing's for sure... if things don't go well for Lewis, he's going to have a lot more time on his hands for writing!