Where the Axe Is Buried: A Novel

All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.

Following the success of his debut novel, The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler launches readers into a thrilling near-future world of geopolitical espionage where an authoritarian Federation ruled by a near-immortal President is beginning to crumble, paralleled by the collapse of AI-governed Western societies.

In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a...