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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
"A hard-boiled, cinematic read that moves as fast as a well-planned
heist." --Esquire
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
(Robert 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.
