The return of Ansel Gibbs

Retired government operative and lawyer Ansel Gibbs is called out of retirement to take a post in the president's cabinet. During the intervening years, which have been spent between the quiet seclusion of his farm in Montana and living an anonymous life in Europe, Gibbs has become sceptical about the nature of Western civilisation, and has developed a feeling of uncertainty about life itself. As such, his re-entrance into public life marks the beginning of an existential crisis.