A short day’s travel to the west of the Cape Complex, the self-styled Roger the Good is meeting with his senior advisors in a glass and steel tower in the heart of Gotham.
On one side of the rectangular lucite-topped mahogany table are Jeff Pash, Mike Kensil and Troy Vincent; on the other side of the table, Charles Koch, Rupert Murdoch and pizza mogul “Papa” John Schnatter are seated. Tablets are set up in front of each of them. There are pitchers of ice water and glasses at either end of the table. On a large monitor at the end of the table opposite Roger the Good, in split screen, Vladimir Putin and Justin Bieber attend by videoconference. All of the men seated at the table appear to be uncomfortable and subtly shift their weight in their high-backed leather chairs.
