<뉴욕타임스 베스트셀러 1위! 거장 마이클 만 감독의 첫 소설! 전설적인 범죄 액션 영화 '히트(Heat)'의 앞뒤 이야기를 다룬 프리퀄이자 시퀄입니다. 영화의 마지막 장면 직후, LA를 탈출하려는 크리스(발 킬머)와 그를 쫓는 형사 빈센트(알 파치노)의 숨 막히는 추격전을 다룹니다. 또한 1988년 시카고와 멕시코 국경을 배경으로 한 주인공들의 과거 이야기를 통해 영화보다 더 확장된 세계관과 깊이 있는 캐릭터 묘사를 선보이는 걸작 스릴러입니다.

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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 heist film―with an all-new story unfolding in the years before and after the iconic movie.

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

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 (Robert 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 this suspense thriller.

In a tense prequel story set 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, dual timeline narrative driving through the years following Heat.