James Comey’s book that details Trump meetings is a blockbuster, selling 600,000 copies in first week

Fired FBI director James Comey’s memoir that details his private meetings with US President Donald Trump sold some 600,000 copies in all formats in its first week, its publisher said on Tuesday.

The latest in a series of bestselling political books, Comey’s A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, has dwarfed Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir What Happened and journalist Michael Wolff’s behind-the-scenes White House expose Fire and Fury in opening week sales.

The book has angered Trump as Comey compared the president to a mob boss who stresses personal loyalty over the law and has little regard for morality or truth.

Publisher Flatiron Books, a division of privately-owned Macmillan, said it has printed more than 1 million copies  but did not say whether the first week sales were global or limited to the United States.

Comey has been on a media blitz, sitting for numerous television and radio interviews, while also on a book tour that has seen him appear before sold-out audiences of more than a thousand.

Trump dismissed Comey in May last year while the FBI was investigating allegations Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Russians and Trump’s campaign.