Where the Axe Is Buried A Novel

Ray Nayler, Eunice Wong

eAudio - 2025

All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end."[C]ompellingly narrated, making for a performance that's difficult to pause." —AudioFile on The Mountain in the SeaIn 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.As 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... more