When local and national political figures are killed one after another, President Morgan Taylor assigns Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke to work with America's intelligence services to unravel the plot. At the same time, a growing secessionist movement is stirring up anti-government fervor across the nation. The combination creates a sense of instability and expanding lack of confidence in the political system. Scott Roarke's fiancé, attorney Katie Kessler, who works for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, researches the movement in advance of an impending constitutional crisis. She discovers that the separatist leadership may have foreign ties. Roarke's own international investigation tracks those ties to: Pyongyang, North Korea. As Roarke tracks the assassin, American intelligence determines that the plot has decade-old roots going back to a private school in Switzerland where the future Supreme Leader of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea befriended a young American student. With evidence from Roarke, Kessler, the CIA and FBI, President Taylor authorizes the U.S. Navy to activate its own long-incubating, clandestine mission. In order to prevent an all-out war, it's an operation that must remain secret at all costs. With the clock ticking, the assassin ready to make his greatest kill, and critical destabilizing votes occurring state-by-state, Executive Measures brings a political reality to the page that feels like breaking news.