Heat 2

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,