With a near-bankrupt Gotham City descending into chaos in the wake of an unjustified police shooting, Lieutenant James Gordon is approached on behalf of a group of Gotham’s bankers to instigate a police-lead coup of Mayor Garcia’s administration and install leadership more favourable to the banker’s wishes so as to restore order to the city.

This is a Batman graphic novel that attempts to capture the sentiments of all that is happening in 2020, inspired specifically by social unrest, efforts to defund the police and the fleeing tax base of New York City. It involves a ‘Banker Plot’ that is based around the failed Business Plot of 1933 (with James Gordon as Smedley Butler and disaffected police officers of Gotham serving in place of the returned servicemen) and the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the first and only overthrow of a U.S city. 

Further, you have Bruce Wayne, the richest man in Gotham, as a means by which journalist Vicki Vale can access the wealthy circles of Gotham and corroborate the suspicions of Gordon about the plot, just as Butler had relied on a journalist to corroborate his theorising about the Business Plot in 1933.