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"Comey's conversational tone instantly connects with the listener, and hearing him deliver the book's highly charged contents in his own voice brings authenticity and immediacy to the presentation...This greatly anticipated, revelatory memoir needs to be heard." -- AudioFile Magazine
In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, 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. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. 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.
More praise for A Higher Loyalty:
"It was essential that Comey himself narrate this book, not only because his absence would have distracted listeners familiar with his voice but also because only the author could credibly convey the range of raw emotions emanating from the experiences he shares from this most eventful of lives." - Booklist, Starred Review
Author Notes
On September 4, 2013, James B. Comey was sworn in as the seventh Director of the FBI.
A Yonkers, New York native, Jim Comey attended the College of William and Mary and the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, Comey returned to New York and joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. There, he took on numerous crimes, most notably Organized Crime in the case of the United States v. John Gambino, et al . Afterwards, Comey became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he prosecuted the high-profile case that followed the 1996 terrorist attack on the U.S. military's Khobar Towers in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
Comey returned to New York after 9/11 to become the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. At the end of 2003, he was tapped to be the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice (DOJ) under then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and moved to the Washington, D.C. area.
Comey left DOJ in 2005 to serve as General Counsel and Senior Vice President at Defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Five years later, he joined Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut-based investment fund, as its General Counsel. In early 2013, Comey became a Lecturer in Law, a Senior Research Scholar, and Hertog Fellow in National Security Law at Columbia Law School.
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The ex-FBI director-whose firing by President Trump, over the FBI's investigation of Russian government interference in the 2016 election, sparked a furor-reopens that case and others in this piercing and candid memoir. Comey revisits conflicts between duty and politics under three presidents: as deputy attorney general, wrangling with the Bush White House over the legality of interrogation procedures such as waterboarding; in a dramatic scene, guarding the hospitalized attorney general John Ashcroft from White House officials' bedside efforts to reauthorize illegal surveillance programs; and overseeing the FBI's probe of Hillary Clinton's emails (he revisits and explains the actions that, it has been claimed, cost her the election). Comey mines his recollections for leadership lessons, with Barack Obama, whom he admires, furnishing the best examples. His damning portrait of Trump, on the other hand, is a study in unethical, off-putting anti-leadership: he likens Trump to a Mafia boss for pressuring him to show personal loyalty and drop the investigation of Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn, cringes at Trump's defensive and crass denials of claims that he consorted with Russian prostitutes, and "desperately tr[ies] to erase myself from the president's field of vision" at a gathering to avoid Trump's unpleasant schmoozing. This is a troubling and important account of the clash between power and justice. (April) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Former FBI director Comey, much in the news, reviews his career and speaks his mind about his dismissal."I fully intended to serve as director of the FBI through the year 2023," writes Comey, that year being when his 10-year term, begun under Barack Obama, expired. "What, I wondered, could possibly interfere with that?" The "what" was Donald Trump, who, under investigation for various improprieties committed during his campaign and perhaps after, demanded personal loyalty of Comey and did not receive the required affirmative reply. "Holy crap, they are trying to make each of us an amica nostra'friend of ours," he writes, adverting to time he spent pursuing Mafia figures as a federal prosecutor in New York. As has been well-reported, the author weighs Trump and his colleagues and finds them wanting in every way: "this president is unethical," he charges, "and untethered to truth and institutional values." That president, he adds with a touch of informed speculation, is also bound for greater legal troubles than he has faced thus far. Comey looks back on a long career marked by such signature moments as his uncovering Dick Cheney associate Scooter Libby as the person who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, a matter over which he came under considerable pressure to back off the case, one of the many "exhausting lessons in the importance of institutional loyalty over expediency and politics" that he would learn in service to three administrations. Along the way, aside from a couple of personal digs at Trump's clothing style and hand size, Comey serves up some well-observed remarks on the qualities of a successful leader, including humor, "accurate feedback" and pushing for improvement, especially self-improvementagain, all matters in which the current occupant of the White House falls short. Not all the book will be convincing, especially to supporters of Trump's opponent, whose campaign suffered a tremendous blow when Comey announced that she, too, was under investigation.A modest, soft-spoken book that is sure to enrage its chief subject. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* For all the preconceptions readers will bring to this hot-button book, it is, first, an origin story of one of just seven men to lead the FBI for more than 3 years over the bureau's 83-year history. (Comey's predecessor, Robert Mueller, had the second-longest tenure, at 12 years, after J. Edgar Hoover's 37.) Bullied as a new kid in elementary school, and scarred by an armed robbery in his family's home as a teen, Comey would launch his career battling wrongdoers as diverse as the New York Mob, Martha Stewart (insider trading), and future U.S. attorney general Alberto Gonzales (warrantless domestic wiretapping), leading ultimately to the FBI directorship in 2013. Comey clearly lays out the high ethical and moral protocols demanded of those who work at the FBI, but his story is also that of an Everyman trying to keep his head above the swirl of misdeeds committed by those in power who should have done better, from Hillary Clinton's reckless use of an email server to former U.S. attorney general Loretta Lynch's ill-advised meeting with Bill Clinton on that tarmac in Phoenix, Anthony Weiner's sexual predilections, and Donald Trump's unceasing efforts to breach the wall separating the Justice Department from White House influence. Comey's responses to those and other events weren't flawless or even always courageous, as the author candidly, almost painfully admits, but they make this compelling, soul-searching account a reminder of just how difficult yet consequential it is, in these or any other times, to do the right thing.--Moores, Alan Copyright 2010 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
Note to self By Gayle King. Read by a cast that includes Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, Jimmy AUDIO Carter and Chelsea Handler. (Simon & Schuster Audio.) King organized a parade of the famous, from John Lewis to Kermit the Frog, to write letters to their younger selves, offering the wisdom that age has won them - read by the equally famous, a higher loyalty By James Comey. Read by the author. (Macmillan Audio.) The former F.B.I. director reads his own memoir, recounting his now infamous battles with the president. miss subways By David Duchovny. Read by the author and Tea Leoni, with West Duchovny. (Macmillan Audio.) To record the audiobook version of his new novel, Duchovny enlisted the help of his wife and daughter, adding much warmth to the story of a woman whose quest for something more plays out against the backdrop of a technicolor New York City, the favorite sister By Jessica Knoll. Read by Ashlie Atkinson, Jenni Barber and Aja Naomi King. (Simon & Schuster Audio.) A new thriller by the author of "Luckiest Girl Alive" follows a group of backstabbing reality television stars who are so busy competing for social media fame that they don't see the fatal danger lurking in their future, tradition By Brendan Kiely. Read by Alex McKenna and Robbie Daymond. (Listening Library.) This young adult novel tells the story of a new student on a hockey scholarship to an elite prep school. There is sex, love and friendship, and the stumble to figure it all out. "I have a weakness for memoirs, especially those written by journalists. And there are few braver reporters than those who covered the civil rights movement. John N. Herbers was one of those newsmen, first for United Press International and then The New York Times. I have been reading his book, deep south dispatch, which is co-written with his daughter, Anne Farris Rosen. Herbers, who died in 2017, delivers a gripping and painfully vivid account of the mid-20thcentury South and the racial violence that many whites simply did not want to be told about in the pages of the newspaper or hear of on radio and television. But eventually, and thanks in part to activists and reporters such as Herbers, whites in the South and beyond could not turn away. Writing about the 1955 publicity around the trial of Emmett Till, Herbers writes: 'The public reaction to photographs of Till's beaten and bloated body was so visceral that Till may as well have been dangling from a tree on the courthouse lawn.' " - JONATHAN MARTIN, NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, ON WHAT HE'S READING.