(pb; 2022)
From the back cover
“One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis is holed up in Koreatown, desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna. Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew.
“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. And Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hanna is following his calling, the pursuit of armed and dangerous men.
“Meanwhile, the fallout from
McCauley’s scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a
parallel narrative, driving through the years following Heat.”
Review
Like the movie that spawned it, Heat 2 is a slick, intense, clipped-tone and violent work that reads somewhere between a screenplay and a novel (given the background of its co-authors this is not unexpected), a book delves deeply into its characters while moving quickly through their actions and machinations. Heat 2 is an excellent, swiftly paced and worthy follow-up to Heat, one worth seeking out.
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