The previous director of the FBI seeks a pound of revenge in a mixed memoir and protection of the values of an unbiased Division of Justice.
Earlier than heading the FBI, Comey was a U.S. lawyer, a protection lawyer in personal follow, and a federal prosecutor. A lot of this e book, a reasonably unremarkable follow-up to A Increased Loyalty (2018), facilities on the juicier circumstances he pursued. In pre–9/11 New York, he took a particular curiosity within the Mafia, going after members of the Gambino household. Of Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, Comey writes, “The man might have killed nineteen individuals and devoted his life to a savage felony group, however…Gravano’s responsible plea and cooperation meant the feds had been lastly going to get [John] Gotti.” The cops-and-robbers stuff is all effectively and good, however the meat of the e book issues more moderen issues. Comey has nothing good to say about Donald Trump, who demanded his fealty and, when not granted it, fired him. Trump, writes the writer, “lied extra usually and about extra issues than any chief in our historical past, however he and his followers additionally did one thing profoundly harmful: they attacked the concept that fact exists.” Comey spares no scorn for William Barr (“How may an achieved lawyer begin channeling the president in utilizing phrases like ‘no collusion’ and FBI ‘spying’?”), assails Robert Mueller for a too-long, too-vague report on Trump’s Russian collusion that “left his work vulnerable to cynical distortion,” and defends his option to reveal the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails that helped land Trump the White Home: “Even in hindsight,” he writes wanly, “I consider it was the most effective factor for the FBI and for the Division of Justice”—establishments that, he concludes, should be rebuilt and saved freed from political interference.
A middling political memoir that will attraction to die-hard anti-Trumpers.
Pub Date: in the present day
ISBN: N/A
Web page Rely: 240
Writer: Flatiron Books
Evaluation Posted On-line: Dec. 25, 2020