02554cam a2200349 i 4500 1895882744 TxAuBib 20251124120000.0 240802s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024035634 9780374615369 HRD 28.00 0374615365 HRD 28.00 (OCoLC)1431882457 TxAuBib rda Nayler, Ray, author. Where the axe is buried [BOOK] : a novel / Ray Nayler. First edition. New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 326 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In 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 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.". 20251124. Artificial intelligence Fiction. Dictators Fiction. Authoritarianism Fiction. Heads of state Assassination attempts Fiction. Espionage Fiction. Geopolitics Fiction. Science fiction.