Both
a prequel and a sequel to one of the best movies of the 90s – slam, bam, kaboom
from the first page to last.
Back to the days before LA and Heat; forward to
the aftermath and with a dogged cop still on their tale. And where they learnt
the famous line - "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you
are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.”
I
was wary of this novel when it was announced but rewatched the movie, sat down
and didn’t get up till I finished.
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.
A Times Book of the Year 2022
'Michael Mann's HEAT is one of my all-time favourite movies. HEAT 2 is now one of my favourite suspense novels' JAMES PATTERSON
Described by Michael Mann as both a prequel and sequel to the renowned, critically acclaimed film…
McKinty’s
Sean Duffy series (The Detective Up Late is #7) has been a barnstormer of a
series since the get-go.
Duffy, a Catholic Royal Ulster Constabulary officer in
‘Troubles’ torn Northern Ireland has a price on his head. So maybe as the 80s
bleeds inexorably into the 90s and peace remains a long, long way off it’s time
to retire. But before that one last case.
Ending a series on a high note is a
tough proposition for any writer – but McKinty nails it and maybe, just maybe,
there might yet still be a resurrection for Duffy ahead.
From New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty comes the next thrilling mystery in the Edgar Award-winning Sean Duffy detective series.
Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher.
After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to…
Perhaps perplexingly for a Londoner who writes about China I have a fascination and obsession with reading Grit Noir.
2023 was a good year with new books from Grit Noir masters like Chris Offutt and SA Cosby but Jordan Harper’s The Last King of California really won out for me. The story of Luke, a young man who has been estranged from his father's family and his gang and will he want in or out.
But the real heart of the story, for me, was what it just might be like to grow up and live among violent, compulsive sociopaths. Hard as nails from the first page to the last.
Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like what you find.
After failing in his new life, Luke decides to go home, back to the one place where he'd once felt he belonged. But that was a long time ago and now he has to face the life that he chose to run away from: The Combine. The gang that his uncle now leads, but which his father still runs from prison. Brutal, unforgiving . . . family.
1930s Shanghai was a haven for outlaws from
all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, oppression outrun,
fortunes made – and lost.
This is the story of 'Lucky' Jack Riley, the Slot King of Shanghai, and
'Dapper' Joe Farren, owner of the greatest clubs and casinos. It tells of their
escape from American prisons and Vienna's ghetto, their rise to power, and the
trail of destruction they left in their wake. Shanghai was their playground for
a flickering few years, a city where for a fleeting moment even the wildest
dreams seemed possible.
