24 Declassified: Storm Force Mass Market Paperback – December 26, 2007

By page 111 of this book you'll have read mostly background info written in a passive voice. The only action will be when Jack shoots at a hit team. You will spend 6 'delightful' pages reading about the boring background of a hit woman which will not interest you nor CTU at all. She is already dead. The six pages play no part in the plot at all.By page 111 you will know nothing more than you did at the beginning. There is guy connected to Cuba named Beltran who might be up to something bad. What happened to the ever-building suspense we've grown to love?This is showing rather than telling at its worst. A car hijacking by a machine gun carrying madman is glossed over yet we are treated to many very lengthy descriptions of such things as a fountain in Saudi Arabia. This writer seems to thrill in lengthy boring background info, and unneeded description of the mundane. And then glosses over things that would produce some real human emotion.As has been pointed out in other reviews our Jack here mostly sits around and talks. (Some have rightly pointed out that this is not really Jack at all but the boring hero of some other novel whose name was changed so the author could slip him into this series.) One wonders why they hired this writer and how this book ever got printed?The other books in the series played on ever increasing threat that Jack knows about and has to curtail. Or threat we know about and Jack has to find out about. None of that here.When a threat does appear it is a lazy threat, not even described in enough detail to make it seem really terrible.Please, please, please don't even hire this writer again and while you are at it, please fire the editor. I have every book in this series, I was looking forward to this, and this was a horrific disappointment!

Where to begin? Not enough Jack, and what Jack there is limited to him sitting around in an SUV as the author describes the minutae of such things as the wardrobe of a minor character. BORING! And the Jack that is there is not the Jack Bauer of 24. The characterization is all wrong. The 'real' Jack always has a sense of urgent action about him. Jack Bauer doesn't sit in a SUV for hours and make small talk. Has the author even seen the show? Some chapters don't even have dialogue in them (hour 12). This book doesn't feel at all like 24--it's as if the author just wrote a story and named the hero 'Jack'. And "Storm Force"? The storm is barely mentioned in the first 20 chapters or so. No mention of evacuation gridlock hindering the action, no wind, no rain for much of the book. It's really got little to do with the story. Zzzzzzzzzzz

We got the story line from the bad guys side all through the book. Usually, three story lines are going one at the same time to keep your interest. Jack would confront the bad guy and kill him and not get the information he needed, so he moved on. In this book, Jack was "not to be found until the end". The other 24 books tracked more with the actual TV show, so I don't see this book as something interesting with the show!!!

Didn't like this one at all....that is until the 20th hour. The final 5 hours were decent, but the whole story just seemed all over the place and with very little continuity. I'd pass.

I agree with the other reviews...Skip this book, do not waste your time. John Whitman and Marc Cerasini are 1000 times better than Jacobs.

I have read all of the 24 Declassified books and this is the worst. I usually finish these books in a day or two. I have been reading this one for over two weeks.It is boring. There is hardly any action or Jack Bauer, and too much filler.I am 2/3s through the book and I have no idea what the plot is or the threat that Jack is preventing. It is like someone wrote a book and inserted the name Jack Bauer and CTU in places.This was a huge disappointment.

I do enjoy reading these books. They are a little more detailed and graphic than the series was allowed to be.

I have enjoyed reading all of the books in the 24 Declassified series.

Not bad, but only worthwhile for the die-hard 24 fan.

This latest entry in the 24 Declassified series is a departure from those that have gone before. Storm Force introduces a new author to the series and a new style. I would go as far as to call this a novel, in the sense that it has far greater depth of character development and character involvement, exemplified through the well thought out and researched back-stories that accompany all of those characters, far exceeding the earlier entries in the series. And it is this detail that adds to the story, rounding out all the characters we meet. In this cast of leading characters Jack is just one of a number of key players. Some enthusiasts may not be happy with this change of emphasis, but stick with it as it is a very good thriller. In fact if you have never read a 24 novel before you will enjoy this as a damn good read. And although Jack is maybe not as prominent throughout as you might expect, be assured he will be there for the final denouement.

I like it

Seit dem Hurrikan Katrina ist New Orleans schwer angeschlagen, doch die Stadt erholt sich langsam von den Schäden. Jedoch zieht am Himmel bereits ein neuer Hurrikan auf, der erneut alles in Schutt und Asche legen könnte. Naturgewalten sind zu diesem Zeitpunkt allerdings nicht die einzige Gefahr für The Big Easy sondern auch der teuflische Plan einer Gruppe Verschwörer, die nicht nur New Orleans sondern die ganze USA an den Rande des Abrunds drängen könnten.Dabei sah dieser Tag für Jack Bauer eigentlich eher nach einer Routinemission aus, denn seit Hugo Chavez Machtübernahme in Venezuela hat dieser auch eine sehr freundschaftliche Beziehung zu Kuba entwickelt, was schlussendlich auch zu einer vertieften Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Geheimdiensten dieser beiden Länder führte. Zur Observierung des venezuelischen Geheimdienstobersts Martello Paz an die Ostküste entsandt muss Jack nun mit dem Top-Agenten der CTU New Orleans, Pete Malo zusammenarbeiten, um die Hintergründe des südamerikanischen Spionagenetzwerks aufzudecken, doch jemand treibt ein falsches Spiel und so fallen bald die ersten Schüsse. Das verheißungsvolle Bündnis ist längst gebrochen als ein von kubanischer Seite angeheuertes Killerkommando Paz nur knapp verfehlt und dessen bester Agent, der in eine einflussreiche US-Polit-Dynastie einheiraten sollte, entführt wird. Doch der Venezuelaner plant bereits seinen Gegenangriff...Mit David Jacobs wagt sich nach 6 Bänden ein neuer Autor an die Declassified-Serie heran und schafft sogleich eine angenehme Überraschung, indem einmal keine Massenvernichtungswaffen im Zentrum des Geschehens stehen. Auch ist Jack Bauer diesmal nicht alleine unterwegs und erhält mit Pete Malo einen durchaus fähigen Partner. Interessant ist dabei auch das Abgehen von klassischen Terrorgruppen und abtrünnigen Agenten zu gewissermaßen offiziell für die eigene Regierung agierenden Agenten, die zwar auch eigene Ziele verfolgen, doch das ist anfangs noch nicht allzu klar.Unwillkürlich stellt man sich bei 24 ja häufig die Frage, was den Autoren noch einfallen kann und ob sich nicht irgendwo eine billige Wiederholung einschleicht, doch mit neuen Autoren wie David Jacobs kommen auch neue Ideen auf. Dennoch ist der Bruch mit dem Autoren-Gespann John Whitman/Marc Cerasini etwas irritierend, zumal Jacobs das 24-Stunden-Konzept etwas anders anwendet, indem er beispielsweise in den ersten 12 Stunden der Handlung weit mehr erzählt als noch den letzten 12, die gewissermaßen im Schnelldurchlauf passieren. Gerade die für 24 fast schon typische völlig unerwartete Handlungswendung inmitten der Serie, durch die man fast schon gezwungen ist jede Stunde mitzufiebern um nichts zu verpassen, ist in Storm Force nur teilweise vorhanden.Fazit:Eine lesenswerte Abwechslung zu Marc Cerasini und John Whitman, die beweist dass 24 Declassified auch nach 6 Bänden noch lange nicht am Ende ist.

Probably the most boring 24 book that I've read [and I've read most of them].First, the author didn't follow the "standards" used from previous books by him and the other authors. Each chapter doesn't seem to be an hour in a day.Jack is barely in the book. In comparison, he is generally in most of the book in previous books. Even the local CTU center is barely used after the initial few chapters and even then not the local versions of Chloe, Mylo and the others.Too much long ramblings that didn't have to be included.