In my twenties, I asked a spiritual companion who’d just become a lawyer why he’d made that career choice. “I find the concept of Justice beautiful,” he said.

America’s former FBI Director James Comey has a similar sense of the abstract value of Justice and the Law. His new book, A Higher Loyalty, presents Comey’s ideals and takes the reader through the process of their formation. However, the book is most valuable because it’s the story of a lifetime spent in the crucible where those ideals have met the fire of real-life challenges.