Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral, and Heat
teams up with Edgar Award–winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s
first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters of his
classic crime film—with an all-new story unfolding in the years before
and after the iconic movie
“Heat 2 is now one of my favorite suspense novels. . . . I’m already quoting lines from Heat 2 to my writer friends (shamelessly saying the lines are mine).” – James Patterson
One day after the end of Heat,
Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half
delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD
detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Hours earlier, Hanna killed
Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley (De Niro) in a gunfight under
the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined
to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew,
before he ghosts out of the city.
In 1988, seven
years earlier, McCauley, Shiherlis, and their highline crew are taking
scores on the West Coast, the US-Mexican border, and now in Chicago.
Driven, daring, they’re pulling in money and living vivid lives. And
Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hanna—a man unreconciled with his
history—is following his calling, the pursuit of armed and dangerous men
into the dark and wild places, hunting an ultraviolent gang of home
invaders.
Meanwhile, the fallout from McCauley’s
scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel
narrative, driving through the years following Heat.
Heat 2
projects its dimensional and richly drawn men and women into whole new
worlds—from the inner sanctums of rival crime syndicates in a South
American free-trade zone to transnational criminal enterprises in
Southeast Asia. The novel brings you intimately into these lives. In
Michael Mann’s Heat universe, they will confront new adversaries in
lethal circumstances beyond all boundaries.
Heat 2
is engrossing, moving, and tragic—a masterpiece of crime fiction with
the same extraordinary ambitions, scope, and rich characterizations as
the epic film.
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