The Millimeter

What if the bullet had been one millimeter to the right? On July 13, 2024, a shot satisfies that deadly hypothesis. In Butler, Pennsylvania, a single bullet does more than graze—it kills. Donald Trump is assassinated on live television, and America will never be the same. The official story comes fast: a lone gunman, a disturbed young man, a tragic security failure. Case closed. But three people know better. Sarah Brennan, a journalist covering the rally, captured something in her photographs—a man in a gray suit watching the rooftop where the shooter would appear. He was looking at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or exactly the right place at exactly the right time. Marcus Cole, a Secret Service agent, sees the security failures for what they really are. The warnings ignored. The posts left unmanned. Someone made sure Thomas Crooks had a clear shot. David Chen, an FBI analyst following the money, discovers shell companies, offshore accounts, and payments that trace back to people who should never have known Thomas Crooks existed. As they dig deeper, they uncover a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of American intelligence—a shadow committee of former spies and generals who decided that democracy needed saving from itself. Their solution: assassination. But exposing the truth is only the beginning. What follows is worse than the crime itself. A presidential purge that targets not just conspirators but critics. A border that collapses as cartels seize the moment. Cities that become war zones. States that refuse federal orders. And a nation that fractures into something unrecognizable. The investigators who risked everything to reveal the conspiracy must now flee the very country they tried to save. THE MILLIMETER is a white-knuckle political thriller that asks the questions America fears most: What happens when the guardians of democracy decide that democracy is the threat? How far will patriots go to save a nation—and will anything be left when they're done? From the assassination that starts it all to the civil war that ends it, this is alternate history at its most terrifying—because it feels like tomorrow's headlines.