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 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.
