Two killers meet on a bus and travel to a strange retirement community in the middle of nowhere. Gibtown is a place where various people have gone to retire... and disappear. Gibtown is populated with with ex-carneys, mafia dons, world leaders, politicians an spies... or so it seems. But then, nothing is as it seems in West Virginia. From the book: Swaypole, a perfect metaphor for you. When you were on top, you were way up, manic as hell, swaying back and forth from delusion to delusion. When you got down, there you were trying to figure some way to put yourself out of your misery.