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Instant #1New York TimesBestseller!Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director ofThe Last of the Mohicans,The Insider,Ali,Miami Vice,Collateral, andHeatteams up with Edgar Awardwinning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Manns first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters of his classic crime filmwith an all-new story unfolding in the years before and after the iconic movieA hard-boiled, cinematic read that moves as fast as a well-planned heist. EsquireOne day after the end ofHeat, 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 Shiherliss brother in arms Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hannas determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauleys 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, theyre pulling in money and living vivid lives. And Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hannaa man unreconciled with his historyis 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 McCauleys scores and Hannas pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel narrative, driving through the years followingHeat.Heat 2projects its dimensional and richly drawn men and women into whole new worldsfrom 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 Manns Heat universe, they will confront new adversaries in lethal circumstances beyond all boundaries.Heat 2is engrossing, moving, and tragica masterpiece of crime fiction with the same extraordinary ambitions, scope, and rich characterizations as the epic film.