Heat 2

A Novel

By: Michael Mann, Meg Gardiner

Narrated by: Peter Giles

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 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 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.

Great story Great narrator

Peter Giles is my favorite narrator and he didn’t disappoint here either. Great narration, great story.

Best Audio Ever

I can’t say enough about this Audio. If you liked Heat then you will LOVE Heat 2. All the characters come back to life!!! It was exceptionally and brilliantly read!!! I couldn’t stop listening!!!!!

A searingly inventive sequel.

We avoid ALL the typical sequel pitfalls here - expansive timelines take us on incredible journeys with both original characters and new, indulging in crimes of the past, and of the rapidly approaching game changing paradigm of the near future.
For fans of the original movie this is a real gift.
For new fans; this is the Heat around the corner.

Get past the epilogue!

Once you get past the epilogue and there’s dialogue between characters the story gets more interesting. The 90’s style action trailer voice becomes less annoying when you have a variety of voices coming in. The story was very satisfying and at certain points had me holding my breath waiting to see what happens next!

Heat 2

I don’t know why I had any reservations about this book. A cool & confident sequel to one of the greatest heist movies ever made, with touches of Manhunter & Miami Vice sprinkled in - 100% Mann through and through...

(And a killer Pacino by Peter Giles)