1994. Before the clock started ticking... Tateos Gadjoyan, an Armenian arms merchant, has been a target of the Central Intelligence Agency for years. Efforts to thwart his selling of American military weapons to terrorists have been unsuccessful, but finally two undercover agents have infiltrated Gadjoyan s inner circle. Soon they will have sufficient evidence to seize the arms dealer. On the small Japanese island of Okinawa, Gadjoyan s representatives are concluding a deal with Miroji Jimura, an arms dealer who s only too happy to profit from the sale of American weapons to be used against American people. When a rival of Jimura s sabotages the arms deal, the case against Tateos Gadjoyan is threatened and another far greater menace to American security is revealed. The only thing standing against this new danger is a single junior CIA agent named Jack Bauer. Working without backup, Bauer has no choice but to face this urgent new threat head-on, but the stakes are high and time is already running out... An all-new Jack Bauer adventure by New York Times bestselling author Dayton Ward