Apparently in House of Cards, the same book in which former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne calls Tim Geithner a "prick" who "thinks he's got a big dick ... He’s got nothing, except maybe a boyfriend," Cayne also had some unkind words for Kate Kelly, the WSJ reporter who questioned Cayne's handling of the crisis in an epic "Page One" story last fall. In the book, according to the Observer, Cayne calls Kelly "a cunt ... whose capability is zero." Now Kate is mad because the writer, William Cohan, didn't call her and get her reaction to the slur. (It's not that her own book isn't coming out till June or anything like that.) “What was I going to say, ‘Hey, Kate, I don’t know you and you don’t know me, but Jimmy has called you this name, Do you have a reaction to that?" Cohan told the paper in his defense. Whatever. At this point, the only book all this press is making us want to read about the whole imbroglio is one by Cayne. It sounds like it could be scandalous, like a modern-day Story of O!

Bear Stearns Book Battle: House of Cards Author Cohan Quotes ex-CEO Cayne Ranting Against WSJ Reporter Kate Kelly [NYO]