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Heat 2: A Novel Audiobook, by Meg Gardiner Play Audiobook Sample

Heat 2: A Novel Audiobook

Heat 2: A Novel Audiobook, by Meg Gardiner Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Peter Giles Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 12.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 9.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062653581

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

107

Longest Chapter Length:

52:17 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

10:27 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

17

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Publisher Description

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.

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"Sequel to the critically acclaimed and universally loved by the fans movie "Heat" from 1995. Crime-movie classic is followed by a crime-novel masterpiece, equally engrossing. While reading you see the actors in their prime wondering how come the sequel did not make it to the screen. The book is ambitious and long, there are several interlinked narrative threads in several timelines, all masterfully summarized in the finale as climactic as the memorable bank heist scene from the movie. Masterpiece, I would love to read more from the duo of Michael Mann, the director and the screen-writer of the original movie and his wrtiting partner, an experienced Meg Gardiner. "

— Wojciech W. (5 out of 5 stars)

Quotes

  • “A hard-boiled, cinematic read that moves as fast as a well-planned heist.”

    — Esquire
  • “Heat 2 is now one of my favorite suspense novels.”

    — James Patterson
  • “Heat is such an iconic film that it belongs on every crime lover’s shelf. So the chance to expand on it, with such a fine writer as Meg Gardiner, is a treat—make that a treasure.”

    — Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author
  • “To this day, images from the 1995 movie Heat, with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, still linger. That resonance permeates in Heat 2. Put your headphones on and crank up the guitar orchestra soundtrack as you glide through the streets of LA.”

    — Barnes&Noble.com

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  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Narration Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Story Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    — 11/10/2022

About the Authors

Meg Gardiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of a number of critically acclaimed novels. Her thrillers have won the Edgar Award and been summer reading picks by the Today show and O, the Oprah Magazine. In August 2022 her novel, Heat 2, coauthored with Michael Mann, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. A former lawyer and three-time Jeopardy! champion, Gardiner lives in Austin, Texas.

About Peter Giles

Peter Giles, a film, television, and voice actor, is best known in the audiobook industry for his superb narration of Michael Connelly's thrillers.