It was on a warm June evening at the Langston estate in East Hampton that Victor decided to stage what he considered a harmless little test.
The estate itself was the kind of place that made visitors fall silent the moment they stepped through the gates. A long stone driveway wound between manicured gardens and towering oak trees before opening onto a sprawling mansion overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The property had been renovated so many times that no one could quite remember what the original house looked like decades earlier.
That weekend Victor had invited an impressive group of guests.
Investment bankers from Manhattan.
Tech founders from Silicon Valley.
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