{"product_id":"where-the-axe-is-buried-hardcover","title":"Where the Axe Is Buried - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRay Nayler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the Federation and the West both start to crumble, Lilia, the brilliant scientist whose invention may be central to bringing down the seemingly immortal President, goes on the run, trying to break out from a near-impenetrable web of Federation surveillance. Her fate is bound up with a worldwide group of others fighting against the global status quo: Palmer, the man Lilia left behind in London, desperate to solve the mystery of her disappearance; Zoya, a veteran activist imprisoned in the taiga, whose book has inspired a revolutionary movement; Nikolai, the President's personal physician, who has been forced into more and more harrowing decisions as he navigates the Federation's palace politics; and Nurlan, the hapless parliamentary staffer whose attempt to save his Republic goes terribly awry. And then there is Krotov, head of the Federation's security services, whose plots, agents, and assassins are everywhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the success of his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain in the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, Ray Nayler launches readers into a thrilling near-future world of geopolitical espionage. A cybernetic novel of political intrigue, \u003ci\u003eWhere the Axe is Buried \u003c\/i\u003ecombines the story of a near-impossible revolutionary operation with a blistering indictment of the many forms of authoritarianism that suffocate human freedom.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Nayler is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain in the Sea, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Locus Award for \"Best First Novel,\" and the novella \u003ci\u003eThe Tusks of Extinction.\u003c\/i\u003e Called \"one of the up-and-coming masters of SF short fiction\" by \u003ci\u003eLocus, \u003c\/i\u003e Nayler's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eAsimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Analog Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction, Lightspeed, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNightmare, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as in many \"Best Of\" anthologies. His stories have won the Clarkesworld Readers' Poll and the Asimov's Readers' Award, and his novelette \"Sarcophagus\" was a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Quebec and raised in California, Nayler lived and worked for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. He holds an MA in global diplomacy from the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS University of London. He lives in Washington, DC.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 8.45 x 5.79 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378910556262,"sku":"9780374615369","price":36.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/T8GfzCzaqi9780374615369.webp?v=1768912684","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/where-the-axe-is-buried-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}