24 Declassified: Vanishing Point
Chapter One
The following takes place between the hours of
12 P.M. and 1 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time
12:00:04 P.M. PDT
The Cha-Cha Lounge, Las Vegas
The holding room was located three levels below the gaming floor, in the casino's deepest subbasement. Yet even here the clatter of coin and the jangle of five hundred clicking, ringing slot machines penetrated the insulated brick walls and seeped through the cheap soundproof ceiling panels—an incessant carnival buzz that rose and fell like a demented organ grinder's squeeze box.
Jack Bauer closed his ears to the noise and barely registered his dismal surroundings; gray, unpainted walls, avocado-green phone without a press pad or dial, a steel fire gate that led to a concrete ... read full excerpt from 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point ebook
