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The Apprentice (Libby novel)
''The Apprentice'' is a novel by Lewis Libby, former Chief of Staff to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, first published in hardback in 1996, reprinted in trade paperback in 2002, and reissued in mass market paperback in 2005 after Libby's indictment in the CIA leak grand jury investigation.〔Lewis Libby, ''The Apprentice'' (St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1996; rpt. New York: St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books, 2002; rpt. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005); ISBN 1-55597-245-4 (10) and ISBN 978-1-55597-245-5 (13); ISBN 0-312-28453-5 (10) and ISBN 978-0-312-28453-4 (13). (Subsequent references appear within parentheses in the text.)〕 It is set in northern Japan in winter 1903, and centers on a group of travelers stranded at a remote inn due to a smallpox epidemic. It has been described as "a thriller ... that includes references to bestiality, pedophilia and rape."〔Associated Press, ("Publisher to Reissue I. Lewis Libby's Novel" ), ''USA Today'', 9 November 2005, accessed 3 July 2007.〕 It is the first and only novel that Libby has written.
==Publication history==
After being published in hardback by Graywolf Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) in August 1996 (now out of print), it was published as a trade paperback by St. Martin's Thomas Dunne Books in February 2002, and then reissued as a mass market paperback reprint of 25,000 copies by St. Martin's Griffin imprint in December 2005, after Libby's indictment that October, as a result of the CIA leak grand jury investigation.〔〔Julian Borger, ("Indicted Libby's Publishers Plan 25,000 Reprint of 'steamy' Novel" ), ''The Guardian'', 11 November 2005, accessed 23 February 2007.〕〔Cf. ("Libby's Novel Stays Shelved" ), ''Publishers Weekly'', October 31, 2005, accessed July 4, 2007. Contrary to that report, the first publisher of the novel in paperback was not Griffin but Thomas Dunne Books (another imprint of St. Martin's Press).〕
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