Congratulations, Reed Farrel Coleman!

From the Web site Deadline Hollywood comes this news:

After a long manhunt that involved months of interviews with substantial authors, Michael Mann has found his co-writer for the prequel novel to Mann’s landmark [1995] crime film Heat. Writing with Mann will be Reed Farrel Coleman, the four-time Edgar Award-nominated author who is up for the award tonight for his 2016 novel Where It Hurts, part of mystery series that revolves around the retired Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy. Coleman will collaborate with Mann to tell an origin story involving the characters that populated the Al Pacino-Robert De Niro-led ensemble drama that Mann scripted, directed, and produced. The novel will be published next year under the Michael Mann imprint at William Morrow/HarperCollins.

(Hat tip to Linda L. Richards)