It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

With us now is the novelist James Comey.

Wait, don't I mean the former FBI director, James Comey? Well, actually, yes, same person,

but the novelist James Comey has his second murder mystery novel, just out. Some of you may know

the first one, Central Park West, selected as an Amazon Best Book of 2023. The new one called

Westport, takes place in Westport, Connecticut and New York City

and elsewhere. The lead character is Nora Carlton, who left a job she loved at the U.S.

Attorney's Office in New York to become General Counsel for a high-rolling Westport hedge fund.

And if you know Comey's bio, this might be sounding familiar.

But James Comey will also talk to us about justice in America right now. And on this day of

closing arguments in the Trump, hush money, falsifying business records, election interference

case. Comey has been following the trial and has also been having a lot to say about the prospects

for the American justice system if Trump is reelected. And we will also ask him to look back

one more time on 2016 and the end of the Trump-Clinton campaign for which many Democrats

hold him partly responsible for the way that turned out.

Director Comey, thanks for coming on.

Welcome to WNYC today.

Great.

It's great to be with you, Brian.

Thank you.

So I'll bite on some book-related questions first, and then we'll get to the real world.

People may have only known you from your investigations of Hillary Clinton's email and then

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