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The latter made his bones in the UK division of Rupert Murdoch’s lying machine as a Mr. Fixit, cleaning up the remnants of Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal by deleting inconvenient emails and sowing the landscape with red herrings.

“I used to say that he liked to call himself ‘the fixer,’ or ‘Mr. Fixit,’ and it was only because he first broke it that he was able to fix it,” Hope Hicks snarked.

He used to revel in the nickname "Mr Fixit".

There are many memorable characters in “Tell Me Everything” — from the plus-size sex worker to the beady-eyed coach to the incomparable Mr. Fixit that is JD — but it’s Krouse’s own persona, with her supernatural powers, her supersize wounds and her spiritual speedball of courage and vulnerability, that makes this book mesmerizing on every page.

The unusually large amount at stake reflects Mr. Claure’s singular role at SoftBank, where he has been part Mr. Fixit and part ambassador — untangling messy investments, scouting out lucrative opportunities and wooing start-up founders — since joining in 2017.