Introduction and First Day: “24 Declassified: Trinity”

Hello. My name is… sorry, can't give my name out to the people who don't know it. Anyway, I think you need to read this blog if you are a fan of the TV series “24,” staring Kiefer Sutherland as federal agent Jack Bauer, and pass this along to anyone who is a fan of the show. Recently, the creators of the TV series announced that they are making a theatrical movie very soon out of it. They've got the script done and the financing in place, so all they need to do now is to wait for Kiefer Sutherland to be available in April. There are innumerable pieces of “24”-related media: comics, books, games, web series, mobile serie, prequels to seasons on DVD box sets, etc. Since I pay great attention to detail, I like to experience things in the order they happen in, so I'm going through each piece of media in the rough chronology set down by an independent wiki devoted to “24.” This is the first post of what I hope will be a very long and successful blog about my journey through the story of “24” and Jack Bauer. I must also ask you to please not reveal too much information about certain double-crosses or scandals, because I'm sure I know too much already.
So, the first piece of “24”-related media I'll start with is a book in a series called “24 Declassified,” which looks at certain early CTU (Counter Terrorism Unit) missions, and this, while not the first book in the series, is the one that's set the earliest. It's called “Trinity.” It attempts to mimick the real-time structure of the TV show, while simultaneously trying to be a book more focused on character than plot, and sometimes that doesn't work out. However, as a truly complex, entertaining, exciting, tense, and occasionally very violent introduction to the characters, it succeeds beyond all expectations. The core conspiracy had three false trails leaked so the LAPD and CTU would stay busy on other things, so the organization spends most of its time going around in circles, before finally realizing that they were being played the whole time. They find it out as we do, so for a while, things don't gell, and the story seems to go in a million different directions at once, but it all gets pulled together masterfully at the end. Some may be put off by the striking depictions of violence in some scenes, as well as the death of two major characters in the book, but overall, it's quite successful.