James Comey's 'A Higher Loyalty' Sells 600,000 Copies ‘A Higher Loyalty’ hit the number in its first week of being released and will land No. 1 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books. The former FBI director, who was fired by Trump in May 2017, recently made headlines for saying Trump is "morally unfit to be president.” On his extensive media tour, he also noted that the Russians may have compromising information about President Trump. Flatiron, who published the memoir, has gone back to press several times, with more than 1 million copies in print, USA Today reported.