Heat 2

Audio Book of the Week Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner, read by Peter Giles Heat is not my own favorite Michael Mann film—I'll take The Insider or Thief—but thirty years after it pitted Pacino against DeNiro as mirror-image cop and robber, it might be his most beloved. A movie sequel is finally on the way, but Mann loves the story so much that a few years back he (with crime-novelist collaborator Gardiner) published this epic before-and-after tale, which had mostly slipped past my radar until I heard raves about the audiobook. And what a ride it is: Peter Giles reads Mann's staccato, operatic prose with a gravelly, borderline-campy intensity that makes you feel like you are listening to a nineteen-hour monster truck show promo. And I mean that in a good way. To use some favorite Mann adjectives, it's electric, it's lethal, it's jacked. (Order the audiobook from our partners at Libro.fm) Audio Book of the Week