Well-known, politically charged people around the country are turning up dead. They all have two things in common: they are each despised by the American Right, and they all have the same gruesome message pinned to their dead bodies.

As the mystery grows, a tragic scene unfolds in a Michigan forest elevating awareness of the situation to the highest levels of government.

When a terror arises, when it is so menacing and imminent that stopping it supersedes the law itself, there is a clandestine team with the requisite skills which must be engaged. Only the president can call...