Former FBI Director James Comey has signed a book deal, with publication expected in spring 2018.
Comey’s publisher, Flatiron Books, said the work would highlight “examples from some of the highest-stakes situations in the past two decades of American government” and “share yet-unheard anecdotes from his long and distinguished career,” according to a report by Bloomberg.
The book does not yet have a title.
Comey’s career in the Justice Department and later in the FBI has always been highly visible, yet it intensified over the past year. In 2016, Comey’s dismissal of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server angered conservatives, only to have those tables flipped in October when he announced the FBI would be resuming the Clinton email investigation after new emails were discovered on the laptop of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner.
This year, Comey made waves in a March hearing of the House Intelligence Committee when he announced the FBI was conducting an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections that included, “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”
President Trump fired Comey in May, which sparked a firestorm of criticism and led to yet another hearing by Comey that was one of the most anticipated events of the year in Washington.
Since that time, the former FBI director has mainly stayed out of the public eye.
