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Mit seinen Actionfilmen begeisterte Michael Mann während vielen Jahren, das Paradebeispiel des Genres "Heat" ist bis heute ein wichtiger und mitreissender Film. Die Fortsetzung zu diesem harten Thriller erfolgt aber nicht auf der Leinwand, sondern als Roman.
Still in progress. I was really looking forward to this book as I love the movie. Exceeding my expectations so far.
Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat - an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film. Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann’s first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat – an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film.
I read this in one bite. The book moves at a feverish pace, and there are three set pieces -- a fight between cops and crooks in a Chicago home, a robbery at a Mexican count house, and a shootout on the streets of Los Angeles -- that I can't wait to see on screen. I also will give the authors credit for creating a villain that comes as close to being as hissable as anything in recent crime fiction. Mann added that “Heat” has a unique lasting power and has “sustained in culture” since its debut 27 years ago. The director penned the upcoming novel “Heat 2” as a prequel origin story for Al Pacino and Robert De Niro‘s respective characters, police officer Vincent Hanna and criminal Neil McCauley, showcasing the relationship between Hanna (Pacino) and Chris Shiherlis, played by Val Kilmer in the 1995 thriller. So a book that is a sequel/prequel to a movie and is co-written by its director. I have to say I was intrigued but slightly skeptical.The NCERT syllabus mainly focuses on this book to make it student-friendly to make it useful for both the students and the competitive exam aspirants. The book covers a detailed Science based on the syllabuses of various boards. NCERT Science Books for Class 7 is perfectly compatible with almost every Indian education state and central boards.
What do I think? Well, I think, NO, I KNOW, that this is the best crime novel ever written. 5 Stars? Give me a break. You can't praise this incredibly written storytelling masterpiece highly enough. It's a vast epic that is so smart, so well informed, so beautifully constructed, that I wish I could send Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner a crate of champagne for the time spent in losing myself in the world of Vincent Hanna, Neil McCauley, Chris Shiherlis and the countless incisively drawn characters in this propulsive magnum opus. If there is a more evil bad guy in literature than Otis Wardell, I don't want to be on the same planet with him. It seemed only a matter of time, before Michael Mann penned a sequel. Many just didn’t expect him to wait upwards of twenty years to do so, nor to (at least initially) put it in novel form. This is a perfectly adequate crime novel that adds little to and subtracts little from the film it follows. To reviewers claiming this is the best crime novel ever, I implore you: please read more.Michael Mann’s HEAT is one of my all-time favourite movies. HEAT 2 is now one of my favourite suspense novels’ JAMES PATTERSON
An exciting, emotionally rich thriller, with just as much style and panache as Michael Mann's original classic heist movie' Operatic in scope, HEAT 2 is engrossing, moving, and tragic - a masterpiece of crime fiction from one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema.If you love Neo-noir -like I do- It doesn't get any better than this. If you don't, then I'd give it a hard pass. No one in this book walks, they all glide or cruise. No one gets in and out of cars, they all "slide in" and "roll out", etc. If dude-lit was a thing - this would be the definition of It. Have not seen the movie, ga and watch that first and then read the book, otherwise you’ll shortchange yourself in the total experience. 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.
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