Collateral Damage - Marc Cerasini [0]
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Collateral Damage
Based on the Hit FOX series created by Joel Surnow & Robert Cochran
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Prologue
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
General George S. Patton
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.
To Will Hinton, a most patient editor.
And to Agent John P. O'Neill, the FBI's top expert on Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and lead investigator of the USS Cole and African Embassy bombings.
O'Neill left the Bureau in frustration because he believed the U.S. government did not take the threat of terrorism seriously enough. In August 2001, Mr. O'Neill became the security chief of the World Trade Center.
On September 11, 2001, he was last seen walking in the general direction of Tower Two, minutes before it collapsed. His body was found a week later.
After the 1993 World Trade Center attack, a division of