James Comey

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413 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2024 last heard 30 Apr

James Comey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It's pretty gripping stuff when you've been on the inside and can tell real stories, but fictionalized.

And so I get why people exaggerate and make stuff up because maybe they don't know the inside in a good way.

That's what I hope I bring to readers is I'll show you what it's really like.

And you'll have a hard time putting it down from your beach chair because it's exciting on the inside.

No, and editors would reject it as too fanciful.

Trying to write about a porn star hush money case by

They'd say, no, stop, write something closer to reality.

And so I hope that would never happen because there's no Donald Trump in my books.

I hope that it will be a good cleanser that will give you a lot of fun in a whodunit this summer.

biggest challenge is keeping your characters on track.

That is, there's a tendency for characters to drift and to sort of start to sound like each other.

And so remember, because these people aren't real.

So remembering them in a real way in your head

And staying true to them is hard.

And that's where my wife helps me a tremendous amount.

She'll read it.

Our protagonist is a woman who's a prosecutor who's based on my daughters, especially my oldest, who's a federal prosecutor.

And so my wife will read it and say, Nora's starting to sound a little bit like this or like that.

You got to get it back on track.

That's the hardest part.

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