24 Declassified: Collateral Damage (24) | 
| Author: Marc Cerasini
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
Buy New: $3.12
You Save: $3.87 (55%)
New (26) Used (10) from $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 116278
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0061431184
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061431180
ASIN: 0061431184
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: 100% Brand New! - Ships Today! Identical to Amazon's book in every way. Flawless! Not a cheap Remainder or Book Club Copy! *We recommend Expedited Shipping option for much faster mail delivery
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
In a remote corner of New Jersey is a nation within a nation—a refuge for fanatical converts and fervent believers. But within the confines of the secluded Islamic community of Kurmastan, plans are underway to spread fear, death, and untold destruction across America . . . and to deliver one fatal blow to the country's exposed and vulnerable heart. On the East coast to supervise the activation of CTU's New York office, rogue agent Jack Bauer finds himself in the center of an unleashed hurricane perhaps already too powerful to stop. But if it isn't, in twenty-four hours the U.S. will be brought to its knees by a secret army grown on its own earth. And there is no one Jack Bauer can trust—because the roots of the terror go very deep . . . and frighteningly high.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Better than other Cerasini efforts June 2, 2008
First off, I haven't been completely happy with Marc Cerasini's books and I still don't know who proofreads these 24 novels, but that said, I really enjoyed this and had a hard time putting it down. Like the 1st 24 novel, it takes place in NYC (my guess is that is Cerasini's home base) and contains a lot of familiar characters (including what I think is the 1st appearance of Chloe) and many other 24 universe members. Strange that Nina wasn't mentioned, but probably best not to try to include EVERYONE! Some of the dialog is a stretch (Morris calls Jack "Jack-O" well over a dozen times, sometimes more than once on the same page). Also, Jack has a line near the end of the book (in the middle of the action) that he says "patience is no virtue when you are running out of time." On the 24 show, Jack would have just shouted 'NOW' and you'd have gotten the point. Some of the voices aren't accurate, but it is a pretty good story that had a few surprises, even for a die hard 24 fan like me.
Overall, worth reading. Happy to say that it helps fill in the painful 2008 24 gap. Looking forward to the next book, and then the 2 hour movie this fall!
 Even better! May 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow..I just finished this book today and it was awesome. It's better than the other ones. The plot is very interesting. Instead of saving the world from terrorists in LA, Bauer gets sent to the Big Apple to fix all the problems that the CTU branch in New York has! It's very interesting and the book has kinda a twist in the middle. You think that it starts out as a book where the enemy is just a bunch of terrorists that don't like the US but then there is a twist and you find out that they actually want to bring down the US economy! It's also good because Almeida and Morris o Brian are the supporting characters. Almeida is great and Morris Brian provides good comic relief during tense moments in the book. Yeah. This book rocks! Marc Cerasini....don't stop writing....
Great story. May 20, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I very much liked this book in the series. I don't read a lot so I usually take about a week to finish a book, but I blasted through this one is 2 days. I couldn't put it down. The author stays true to the character and the methods that make Jack Bauer so great, are demonstrated in this book as well.
JACK, THE HERO WE NEED... April 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this entry in the 24 series. Full of action and violence but also full of wonderful moments of heroism. You see, it's the heroism, not the politics, that draws us 24 fans again and again to Jack Bauer. He sacrifices for a greater good, wrestles with doing a wrong thing for the right reason, and this author delivers those moments beautifully. Don't miss Collateral Damage if you are a fan of 24. As a New Yorker, I found it especially refreshing to have the setting moved East and accurate to the city I live in.
Don't be afraid of this book if you have never seen 24. It reads very well as a stand-alone thriller. All of the characters are well explained and well defined, all of the settings are well described, and all of the organizations are well explained, too, including CTU, the CIA unit for which Jack Bauer works.
In fact, if you read this book, you may better understand the show itself--how Jack thinks, how CTU fits into the larger scheme of government, and what it is attempting to accomplish. In any event, I agree with the other reviews. Good read.
Filling A Void April 5, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Were it not for the recent writers' strike, Season 7 of "24" would be in full swing right now. We'd be more than halfway home. Perhaps some beloved characters would already be killed off at this point in the year-long story; perhaps the early-season secondary villains were about to give way to the Big Bad.
Unfortunately, though, this review is written with the lights out. Mark Cerasini, who wrote the first "24" original novel (24 Declassified: Operation Hell Gate (24 Declassified)), is back with "Collateral Damage", which tells a story too broad and action-packed for the small screen. It's the only new "24" we can get right now.
Removed from the confines of Culver City warehouses, and spared yet another shootout on a dusty freeway shoulder in San Bernardino County, "Collateral Damage" brings three CTU fixtures (Jack, Tony, and Morris O'Brian) to the fresh air of lower Manhattan to inspect the nascent New York division. It's 1999. Terrorist forces are brewing across the river, in both Newark and a rural Garden State encampment, and the World Trade Center's in danger once again.
I'd forgotten a lot about Cerasini's first novel (I've somehow missed his two subsequent stories), so some of the graphic violence in "Collateral" shocked me. There's a gruesome mob attack that lasts a couple of chapters (hours), and several large-scale explosions at truck stops and munitions plants. This being "24", there's also a torture scene -- set high up on Central Park West and culminating in a chase through the Park itself. Naturally (this is "24", after all), the torture can be expected to yield impressive results.
Cerasini spreads the action over the Northeast and gives "24" a sense of scale it couldn't achieve on the TV screen. There are fewer time cheats, too. No getting from West LA to Ontario Airport in a single commercial break. Jack Bauer is well portrayed as always, Tony gets a lot to do, and Morris provides the same comic relief that Carlo Rota gave us the last two TV seasons.
Finally, a word about politics. "24"'s always been fair about straddling the liberal/conservative divide. "Collateral Damage" continues that trend, with secondary villains both left (civil rights-minded CTU higher-ups) and right (financial speculators out to destabilize the US economy and cash in on their foreign holdings). However, the book makes just one, hopefully inadvertent, misstep. It can be read that the author's telling us: "Had Jack Bauer been there, the Twin Towers might still be standing". Even coming under the banner of a show where a nuclear bomb detonates in Valencia and within six hours everyone's forgotten, I'm not sure that this is the right storyline to be selling.
|
|
|
