Not coincidentally, these are buildings at which Comey worked during his time in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Comey locates the majority of his story in Lower Manhattan’s compound of government courthouses and offices. Now, Comey has branched out by debuting his first piece of fiction, a gritty potboiler called Central Park West (Mysterious Press, $30 May 30).ĭespite the title, very little occurs on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, other than a murder that sets the book in motion. Writing in the Times, author Joe Klein called Comey “slightly smarmy in his rectitude.” His second, Saving Justice, was published in 2021 and met with fainter praise. (Two years later, a Trump-era Justice Department report determined that the decision reflected a “serious error in judgment.”)Īfter getting fired by President Donald Trump, Comey wrote his first memoir, A Higher Loyalty, which came out in 2018 to great acclaim. Comey’s ability to contextualize information with a measured, personal perspective was a welcome tonic for a polarized time, and it soon hit the New York Times bestseller list. Edgar Hoover, thanks in large part to his decision to reopen an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential race. (Bloomberg) - James Comey is probably the most famous FBI director since J.
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