Six-Minute Kings

Six minutes. Every bodyguard has been ordered to kill the person they were sworn to protect.

Mika Vance used to protect presidents from a thousand yards away. Now, after a disastrous shooting turned her into a national scapegoat, the disgraced Secret Service counter-sniper can barely find anyone willing to trust her.

Then Geneva calls.

Her assignment seems straightforward: protect Hana Eltoukhy, a climate-data whistleblower attending a tightly secured international summit. Keep the witness alive. Finish the contract. Walk away.

But when every protection team receives the same authenticated command to kill its own principal, the summit descends into chaos.

This is no ordinary terrorist attack. The order comes from an allied continuity protocol buried deep inside defense and security systems-a system designed to preserve governments during a catastrophic strike, now repurposed to destroy the very leaders it was built to protect.

Secure communications become traps. Motorcades turn into kill zones. Snipers lose their feeds, and trusted bodyguards become executioners. Across Geneva, official security forces begin carrying out a coordinated assault under the authority of their own credentials.

Mika knows the clock is already running. She has six minutes to understand a system designed to make obedience indistinguishable from duty-and the countdown may reset only after the first wave of killings is complete.

Her only chance lies with Hana, whose evidence could expose the conspiracy, and Luc Renard, a former European security chief whose knowledge of the summit's hidden architecture may be the key to stopping it. But every alliance comes with a question: who is telling the truth, and who has already been programmed to betray them?

As the operation spirals from polished diplomatic corridors into flooded tunnels and a hidden command bunker, Mika uncovers a buried network of decisions, manipulated records, and human lives reduced to variables in a military calculation. The scandal that destroyed her career may be connected to the same machinery now threatening the world's leaders.

To stop the cascade, Mika must make impossible choices while the system closes around her. Saving everyone may be beyond reach. Revealing the truth may demand a sacrifice she cannot take back.

And if the purge sequence completes, the first six minutes will be only the beginning.

Every leader has a protector. Every protector has a weapon. And someone has turned them all against their own.

Six-Minute Kings is a relentless political and military techno-thriller packed with counter-sniper action, international conspiracy, compromised defense systems, high-stakes hostage protection, and a race against a deadly countdown.