Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler by Nayler, Ray

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

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