If you are looking for a tell all book regarding Mr. Trump I am relieved to tell you this book couldn't be farther away from it. I found it to be honest, refreshing, and as far away from political maneuvering as can be. As an American I have watched the divide in our country grow so deep over numerous issues my morale and belief in us has slipped tremendously. I watch our politicians posture, lie, blame and divide us even more. I watch the media do the same thing and promote the far left and right as commentators for what I can only believe is for the ratings. I often wonder if there are any people left in the middle ground. Is it just me? The people around me? Do we not have any leadership who can tell us the truth, not to cause scandal but as their job to be honest? I found the answer to this question in Comey. I've listened to Comey's interviews, I've watched his reports, his actions. His message cut through the screaming, blaming, back stabbing we are inundated with on a daily basis. He gave me hope that there are reasonable people in our government that are not tied to party lines. He gave me hope that while we experience this reality tv show of the presidency and the deepening divide of our country at some point we will experience a fresh start. I pray, hope, this will come to pass. Thank you Mr. Comey for following your ethics and for all that you have done for our nation.

" Let me not seek so much... to be understood as to understand " " St. Frances of Assisi " First off, Mr Director, you were sent here to do this type of work, and I don't feel you are finished yet! You would also qualify for a very advanced writer or author. I went through this book with a fine toothed comb, and can't see why people are picking, talking, gossiping, and carrying on in general, if you will. The only thing I can see that you did wrong was to take an apple out of Dear Former President Obama's basket of apples, take it to the car, photograph it, send a picture of it to your daughter, then take it to her. ( giggles ) What a Director, man, husband, and father! The FBI lost a wonderful soul when they lost you, and all because of a man who obviously to me has NPD and maybe some psychopathy. I have never in a million years seen such things happen other than in my own home. My husband is the twin of the president so to speak. Nothing either of them do puts any surprises on my face or in my soul. They are almost impossible to get along with, or be around. They only love themselves, manipulate, triangulate, lie like no other, use foul language at the drop of a hat, and on and on. You spoke of him never laughing, they don't!!! Never!! Many, I do not believe understand what is below the surface here. They wonder, all of the news people wonder, people on the streets wonder, but many do not have the answers, and I didn't understand either until I did a study on people of this nature and found out a whole lot I didn't care to know, but had to know as I live it. I ask any person who has yet to read the book: can you imagine working and facing your workers and teaching them or reading to them etc. and look up and on the back wall is written that you are being fired right that minute??? Well it happened here, and clear across the country from where the Director lived. Wouldn't you be afraid how to get home? He was!! I would be worse than scared!! So many things he had to deal with, and go through, it is despicable to even name them all. He is a great soul and person and didn't deserve to be treated this way, not at all. I know his calling come from higher up, and I know he is not done yet, whether it be with the government, or in private life. He will continue to help in some way, bring justice in some way, he is a natural. One doesn't see too many men now days who are loyal, compassionate, and honest. I personally loved this book, and read parts of it over and over again, not being able to comprehend how this could go on in our American government!! I hope all of you will pick this up, read it and realize what we lost here, and how we have to speak up and keep speaking up where we can or we won't have our democracy any longer. Director, when you were speaking about Director of National Intelligence James Clapper having Kindness and Toughness and Confidence and Humility, you were also speaking of YOU!! It is funny how we speak of others and do not realize we are sometimes speaking of ourselves. We are all teachers and we are all students. I personally do not believe in coincidences either, and I believe every one of these four words just mentioned belong to you also. In the end I will also quote St. Frances of Assisi " and... where there is darkness only light...

I preordered his book and started reading it as soon as I got it. I find James very credible. It was interesting to read that he was bullied in school so he knows what constitutes a bully, knows what it feels like to be bullied, knows a bully when he sees one. It was also interesting to read that he was a prosecuting attorney for the Costra Nostras, knows how the mafia thinks and operates. I found James to be believable and honest. If he does not know the answer to something, he says so. I do wish he had left the comments about Trump's appearance out but I think I understand why he did. The way Trump fired him was absolutely despicable but Comey seems to have been able to rise above this firing. I've seen many interviews with him regarding his book and his work,,,,,,his answers never change. I believe Comey is honest and that his honesty sometimes gets him into trouble.......but it is so nice to hear honesty instead of lies. He is only human with human flaws but he was trying to do his work to the best of his ability. He treats people with decency and respect and, most importantly, he LISTENS to what they are trying to say. A difficult thing to do and an exceptional quality. We need more people like him.

It's late and my brain is foggy, but I want to leave a brief comment on Comey's book. My husband and I both thoroughly enjoyed it. It's well written and hugely interesting, especially when he relates his various experiences prosecuting cases- from Mafia dons to politicians to Martha Stewart. I have always been a bit flummoxed by the fact that so many prosecutions involve lying to investigators and not the actual crime, be it money laundering, breaking and entering, outing an active intelligence agent, insider trading or whatever. It's more apt to be the cover up, the lying, the obstruction of justice. That may end up being true in some of the Russian meddling prosecutions as well. I used to wonder why that was the case, but I've come away from reading this book with a new perspective on lying. For me that's what I believe the main focus of the book to be- the importance of truth. In our modern political environment and in society as a whole, truth is more elusive than ever. Social media has contributed to that, and a president who is known to play fast and loose with the trurh and who uses social media to spread his version of it has contributed to that environment. Holding those who serve us to a high standard of truth is essential for a free society. After reading "A Higher Loyalty" I more fully understand why our federal law enforcement agencies are so aggressive in the prosecution of anyone who lies or takes part in any kind of cover up. Remember as kids being told to tell the truth no matter what we'd done, that telling a lie would get us in worse trouble than the actual misbehaviour? I sure do.

There's never been any book quite like this one. I read it once and was somewhat reeling so I read it again and could find a bit more perspective and calm.

Comey himself is not quite like anyone else in history or literature. It is just extraordinary to have him let the readers so close to him personally while at the same time, he's spent decades being somewhat rare.

Lots of what's being said about him now is very much below his natural level and I am sorry about it. He's got such a mix of strength and vulnerability. He's a philosopher and theologian as well as prosecutor and executive who just happened to find himself at a series of significant crossroads. The clarity with which he tells his story is riveting, is exemplary.

Now, the book. What astonished me is that he was on inside of a lot of stories the American people shared as witnesses through the past, say thirty years. He was, as the saying goes, in the room. He has a much more charitable view than I have had of Alberto Gonzales and James Clapper. He has a certain essential kindness and goodness but he's almost risked his life to say a couple of things to us that I fear we are too cynical or too far gone to hear, even hear, not to mention act upon.

He seems to think we are better off being truthful, not doing violent crime, not selling out to flattery, persuasion or group think. I don't want to be cynical. The last writer I know of that had such a passionate dislike of public hypocrisy was Mark Twain, Sam'l Clemens. Now Clemens said too that it is not possible to write truthful autobiography, said the human that knows there is an audience cannot possibly be truthful. So Clemens turned over his papers to Albert Bigelow Paine and wound up with the best biography I ever read. It's like spending time with Clemens and his family.

So, if Comey got very very close to candor, truth, authenticity, he might have even surpassed Twain's expectations and bettered the humorist in this way. Or we could say, Comey gets admirably close. His words radiate, emanate, reek authenticity.

Then he comments on our current history in a way he would clearly have never done but for being severed from his public office and function. Being locked out of his beloved FBI, Comey can tell this story. We are living it are we not?

There's just an immense crazy firestorm in the media right now over this. There are denials, false accusations and exploitive judgments flying around the airwaves like somebody just hit a wasp nest with a stick.

Meantime, there's a hero in the way of some of that rage and some of that rage is dangerous.

The only thing Comey asked of his readers is not to be silent and passive in the face of corruption in public life. What I see now is that a few people who fancy themselves at the center of power are going to war over who gets to define what is true.

I sure miss Mark Twain. I think he'd skewer us good for all this noise.