Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/GettyĬomey used his height defensively at a White House reception when Trump tried to lure him into complicity with a hug, an unwanted and inappropriate act of collusion between two branches of government that ought to remain separate. James Comey likens Trump to a mafia boss. Trump, grandly enthroned behind “a large wooden obstacle”, humbles Comey by assigning him to a child-sized chair, from which his bony knees protrude to prod the presidential desk. Embraced by the diminutive Loretta Lynch, Obama’s attorney general, he feels her head nudging his navel. Wearing resoled shoes that boost him by half an inch, he miscalculates how far he needs to duck and bangs his head on the lintel of a door as he enters a solemn White House conclave, which leaves him trying to finesse a trickle of blood from his skull during a meeting with George W Bush. His height makes him an awkward fit for the smaller-scaled world the rest of us occupy, and his memoir abounds in clumsy physical upsets. Comey, I suspect, feels an affinity with that aspirational obelisk. In this book, before his ejection from the FBI, he occasionally looks out of his office window on Pennsylvania Avenue, bypasses the luxury hotel that Trump has opened blocks from the White House, and ponders the distant Washington monument, a pristine marble shaft that points at the sky. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.S tanding 6ft 8in tall, James Comey – “the FBI giraffe” as he calls himself – has made a career out of seeing over the heads of lesser men, his eyes fixed on glimmering legal ideals of probity and propriety. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader. In A Higher Loyalty, his massive Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions.
'An urgent clarion call.' - The Financial Times The sensational Sunday Times #1 Bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump. The inspiration for The Comey Rule, the Showtime limited series starring Jeff Daniels premiering September 2020
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