Former FBI Director James Comey has deal for 2 crime novels “impressed by actual work I’ve carried out”

Former FBI Director James Comey is on a profession path each new and acquainted – crime fiction.

Comey has a deal to write down two novels for The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers. The first is known as “Central Park West,” and it options an assistant U.S. Attorney trying into ties between the Mafia and the homicide of an area politician. The e-book is scheduled for subsequent spring.

“I’m excited to take readers inside fascinating worlds I’ve come to know from my time in authorities and the non-public sector,” Comey, who served an assistant U.S. Attorney from 1996-2001, stated in an announcement. “These tales are fiction, however, impressed by actual work I’ve carried out, they may supply a rarely-seen view of attention-grabbing individuals and establishments.”

Comey is finest recognized for his transient time as FBI director, from 2013-2017, that ended when he was fired by President Donald Trump amid the bureau’s probe into allegations of ties between Russian officers and Trump’s presidential marketing campaign. Comey wrote about his profession within the best-selling memoir “A Higher Loyalty.”

“When our nation’s leaders — the president or his representatives — assault the establishments of justice, the remainder of us not solely want to concentrate, we have to converse out,” Comey advised CBS News after that e-book was launched in 2018.