24 Declassified: 03 - Trojan Horse by Marc Cerasini

Author:Marc Cerasini [Cerasini, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, General, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage, Terrorism, Media Tie-In, Computer Viruses, Award Presentations
ISBN: 9780060842260
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

“What are you going to do?” Milo asked.

“Make a lot of noise, empty this place out.”

“How?”

Brandy rose, touched Milo’s arm. This time her smile was genuine. “I’m gonna burn this fucking shit hole to the ground, that’s what I’m gonna do.”

2:42:52 P.M. PDT CTU Headquarters, Los Angeles

Nina Myers felt it was time to bring Ryan Chappelle up to speed on a number of developments, but she wasn’t about to face the sure-to-be-irate Regional Director alone. At her command, Jamey Farrell abandoned her work station to participate in a meeting in the conference room. Even Doris Soo Min—a young programming genius who had previously been tapped by CTU Los Angeles because of her impressive skills— interrupted her work on the Lesser Trojan horse to attend.

From the start, the atmosphere in the conference room was tense. “Where’s Jack?” Ryan asked, his voice simmering the moment he strode in and saw the Special Agent in Charge was missing.

“I just spoke with him. He’s on his way,” said Nina.

“From where?” Ryan sat down, adjusted his tightly knotted tie.

Nina took a breath, lowered her eyes. “Beverly Hills.”

“I presume he wasn’t there to visit the homes of the stars?”

“Jack Bauer followed up a promising lead in the Hasan investigation earlier today, a tip from a former colleague in the Los Angeles Police Department. Jack went to interrogate someone who may have had actual physical contact with the terrorist leader.”

Ryan frowned. “Why am I learning about this now, and not three hours ago?”

“Jack felt the lead was questionable, that he was on a wild goose chase. He didn’t want to bother you. Then, when things worked out, events happened too fast to keep you apprised. Jack made a major breakthrough once he contacted Omar al Farad—”

“The Saudi Deputy Minister of Finance?”

“The Deputy Minister’s son, Ibn al Farad, had met with Hasan, became a disciple, perhaps even a member of his terrorist cell. Jack hoped Ibn might be able to describe the man. Ibn al Farad did give Jack one promising lead before he was murdered—”

“Murdered. The Deputy Minister’s son was killed?”

“Along with the Deputy Minister and his sister, Nareesa al-Bustani.”

Ryan placed his hands on the table. They were shaking. “Please tell me Jack had nothing to do with these deaths. That he was somewhere else.”

“Jack was at the al-Bustani home when it was attacked by a team of professional assassins,” Nina coolly replied. “CTU’s Tactical Unit arrived too late

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to save them. The assassins were unfortunately killed in the assault, so we have no immediate knowledge of who they were, why they wanted the Saudis dead.”

“On whose authority was the Tactical Unit mobilized?”

“Jack’s,” said Nina. “He felt he would need back up in case of trouble. He was right. CTU was monitoring the woman’s home through the mansion’s own security cameras. When Chet Blackburn’s unit observed the van enter the property, detected the sound of gunfire, they moved immediately. They were inside the house within three minutes, but they were still too late to save the minister and his sister.

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