YMMV / Heat 2

• Complete Monster: Otis Lloyd Wardell is a psychopathic animal of a man who proves to be the worst kind of criminal that Neil McCauley and Vincent Hanna ever faced. The boss of a gang of home invaders, Wardell stages his break-ins when the occupants of the homes are present so that he can terrorize them all, always raping the women and ferociously beating the men. With a trail of rapes and murders behind him, Wardell introduces himself planning to rape a teenage girl before forcing the most hesitant member of his gang to do it instead while Wardell rapes and tortures the girl's mother, then beats her father to death. With a penchant for putting out lit cigarettes on his victims, Wardell graduates in his torturous ways by impaling and suspending a man with a hook before burning off the man's genitals and torturing him to death. Catching a whiff of Neil's latest heist, Wardell beats one of his allies to death before torturing and murdering his lover Elisa after promising to let her go in exchange for the loot. Using Neil's riches to finance his own trafficking operation of underage girls who Wardell personally rapes—and sometimes murders—on a routine basis, Wardell continues to torture and kill anyone who crosses him before initiating a massive shoot-out in the middle of a crowded freeway, casually gunning down several civilians in the way of his goal to rape and kill Elisa's daughter out of spite.
• Fanon Welding: The novel may permit something like this to Miami Vice, given the former has extended sections in Ciudad del Este as it pertains to Chris Siherlis's life after Heat and the latter shows that Crockett and Tubbs' fake identities were also transmitted to the Montoya Cartel through the city. In both works, the city is established as a menacing environment where crime is the number one manifestation of commerce.