Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! 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.
