Peter Kingsley

Kingsley is an American businessman with military and intelligence ties. He learns that the terrorist group Second Wave is planning to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Kingsley and his European associates decide that if the United States went to war with the terrorists' home country, their oil holdings would skyrocket. Kingsley approaches Sherry Palmer and NSA Director Roger Stanton, the latter being part of a conspiracy to undermine the Presidency of David Palmer, and the former allegedly infiltrating Stanton's conspirators. Kingsley convinces Stanton to withold the information of the bomb from Palmer. Stanton has the elite military unit, Coral Snake, track the bomb to Norton Air Force Base. However, the leader of the team, Captain Jonathan Wallace, is bought off by Kingsley. He kills his teammates, allowing the terrorists to prime the bomb. Through the heroism of CTU chief George Mason, the bomb goes off in the desert with no civilian casualties. Kingsley then implements the second phase of his plan, he hires computer hacker Alex Hewitt forge a document implicating three Middle Eastern nations to Second Wave, which would lead to war. He also orders the death of Captain Wallace, who is deemed a security risk. Wallace is eventually killed, but not before alerting Jack Bauer to the conspiracy. Kingsley spends the rest of the day attempting to track down Jack and any evidence that could expose the conspiracy. He even kills his secretary/girlfriend Eve as a security measure. Kingsley is eventually tricked into incriminating himself by Sherry Palmer, and is shot by a CTU sniper during an attempt to kill Jack.

Kinsgley was working for a German man named Max, whose final fate is revealed in 24: The Game.