Bøger af Matt Blake

The thrilling fifth book in Matt Blake's hit The Last Hero series. 
Kyle Peters is living a normal life again. After saving the world from a string of ruthless enemies, Kyle is adjusting to a life where he doesn't have to be the hero anymore. Glacies' services are no longer required. He is a normal teenager, all over again. But all that changes when Kyle learns of a devastating new threat: a Failsafe, designed alongside the very first ULTRAs as an off-switch in case of emergency. Its power? The ability to destroy every single ULTRA on the planet. 

And that Failsafe has just fallen into terrifying hands. 

Now, with the Failsafe in the open and a whole host of villains hunting it down in an epic race for power, Kyle must step up as a superhero once again if he is to save the lives of the people he loves, and rescue his entire species from extinction. And it wouldn't be an ULTRA story if there wasn't an epic twist or two along the way...
 Era of the ULTRAs is the fifth book in Matt Blake's The Last Hero superhero/urban fantasy series. With lovable characters, nail-biting action and adventure, and thrilling twists and turns, The Last Hero is sure to delight all fans of the genre.

The thrilling sixth book in Matt Blake's hit The Last Hero series. After eighteen months presumed dead, Kyle Peters returns. The world's most powerful superhero has no recollection of the last year and a half, and struggles to re-adapt to a normal life, especially with dark dreams of imminent destruction haunting him. 

But Kyle is forced to react when Earth is faced with its biggest threat yet: the arrival of a colossal mothership from outer space, led by a ruthless commander. The villain's goal? To wipe every single ULTRA from the planet, even if it means humanity falling in the crossfire. 

Now, with no choice but to stand up and fight, Kyle Peters must embrace his Glacies superhero identity and re-unite the Resistance to save the world from certain destruction. 
But as the shocking reality of his enemy's identity is revealed, shattering everything he thought he believed in, Kyle is pushed to his very limit in an explosive and climactic showdown he isn't sure he can win... Fall of the ULTRAs is the sixth book in Matt Blake's The Last Hero superhero/urban fantasy series. With the return of lovable characters and detested villains, as well as thrilling action and adventure, twists and turns, The Last Hero is sure to delight all fans of the genre.

Italy is not a country generally known for its science fiction cinema. Over the years, however, a number of films belonging to the genre have been made and - while there might not be a single, defining science fiction 'movement' as such - they make for a curious, compellingly disparate whole. From critically acclaimed futuristic satires to cheapjack exploitation films featuring deadly extra-terrestrials; from counterculture polemics set in an imminent dystopia to post-apocalyptic action movies populated by Mohican-sporting thugs. There might be many different types of films, but they all deal with shared themes and concerns. And that's not even mentioning the giant chickens and flesh-eating fish. This is the first English language book to deal comprehensively with the subject. Covering all Italian science fiction films made between 1958 and 2000 in detail - as well as including an overview of productions made in subsequent years - it examines a range of interconnected sub-genres, looking into how recurrent narratives came about, evolved and eventually faded. So... zip up your space suit, settle back in your anti-gravity seating device... and welcome to the wild, wild world of Science Fiction, Italian Style.

The gripping fourth book in Matt Blake's hit The Last Hero series. Kyle Peters' life has changed dramatically over the last twelve months. After saving the planet from the clutches of an evil supervillain, Kyle and the rest of his team of ULTRAs are now responsible for maintaining peace in the world. But keeping the peace is easier said than done, as a disastrous accident sparks an angry uprising against the ULTRAs. And things go from bad to worse when a scheming new villain with devastating powers takes advantage of the fury and chaos, creating an ULTRA army of his own. Now, with the planet rising against him and an army of ruthless rival ULTRAs closing in, Kyle Peters must embrace his Glacies superhero identity once more in order to save those he loves, and rescue a warring world from irreversible self-destruction.

In the third book in The Last Hero superhero series, the planet is at war. Saint's devastating attacks have left the world's major cities in ruins. Humanity is imprisoned. Soon, there will be nowhere left to call home.Driven by revenge, Kyle Peters (Glacies) leads the fightback against Saint and his unstoppable armies. But when the battle for Manchester, UK goes drastically wrong, the ULTRA Resistance find themselves in a more precarious position than ever before.And when Saint's evil endgame is revealed, the true consequences of his rise to power finally come to light.In a race against time, Kyle must rally his ULTRA army and fight back against Saint and his peers, or face the total destruction of everything and everyone he has ever cared about.But in these dangerous times of war, who can you really trust?Battle of the ULTRAs is the third book in Matt Blake's The Last Hero superhero/urban fantasy series.

The gripping second installment in Matt Blake's hit The Last Hero series.Kyle Peters' life is pretty perfect right now. Six months have passed since the showdown with Nycto, and Kyle is settling into a normal life as a seventeen year old. He has a girlfriend. He has some awesome friends.And he has a bunch of superpowers, too. The ability to fly, to teleport, and to fire ice from his hands. Life is good as the last ULTRA in existence.But when a series of devastating attacks stun the world, Kyle soon learns that he isn't alone: there are other ULTRAs out there, with abilities just like his. Only these ULTRAs don't seem too keen on maintaining world peace. These ULTRAs are hellbent on destruction.And matters are made even more terrifying by the government's introduction of their new program: the ULTRAbots. Machines with the abilities of ULTRAs, but completely controllable by humans. Designed for one purpose: to hunt down every last ULTRA in existence.Now, with the ULTRAbots hunting him down and the rival ULTRAs growing even more destructive, Kyle Peters must embrace his Glacies identity once again if he wants to protect the lives of those he loves, and the lives of everyone on the planet.Rise of the ULTRAs is the second book in Matt Blake's The Last Hero superhero/urban fantasy series. With lovable characters, nail-biting action and adventure, and thrilling twists and turns, The Last Hero is sure to delight all fans of the genre.

Geek. Wuss. Superhero...They were supposed to be the perfect creation: super-powered humans with extraordinary abilities, designed to keep the planet safe in dangerous times. Heroes.But too many of those creations went rogue. The Heroes were branded ULTRAs by the government, hunted down. Civil wars erupted. In the end, the ULTRAs were wiped from existence, consigned to the history books.Until now...Kyle Peters is a teenager going nowhere. He's a geek, he's awful at sports, and he doesn't have the courage to tell the girl of his dreams how he feels. His life is at a standstill, and it doesn't look like changing any time soon.But when Kyle is caught up in a terrifying hostage situation at a soccer stadium, he discovers he is capable of amazing things: he has the abilities of an ULTRA.Now, with a rival ULTRA devastating the planet, and the government keen to wipe all ULTRAs from existence once more, Kyle must battle his own fears and master his powers if he is to become what the world needs more than anything: a true Hero.But Kyle fast learns that becoming a Hero is way more difficult than it seems in the stories...ULTRA: The Last Hero is a gripping, fast-paced superhero/urban fantasy story, and the first in a series. With loveable characters, nail-biting action and adventure, and thrilling twists and turns, ULTRA is sure to delight all fans of the genre.

For a brief period in the mid-1960s, the whole world went spy crazy. From Sri Lanka to Poland, from the US to India, cinemas were filled with the exploits of suave secret agents, glamorous femmes fatales and increasingly demented villains. The symbols and images of the genre permeated advertisements, pulp novels and television series as well. No suburban dinner party was complete without a discussion of the latest escapades of a Bond, a Bulldog Drummond or a Harry Palmer. The intention of this book is to examine the more obscure cinematic manifestations of sixties spy mania. Though these films may be almost entirely forgotten today, they were literally everywhere at the time. With the sorry state of the world, what better time than today to delve into the life of a super-slick secret agent? Someone who understands the games that nations are playing, someone who can process incoming information and control-rather than be controlled by-situations. Someone who is backed up by the might of military hardware and brainpower. Someone who can charm the chicks and beat up the bad guys. This is the import of the secret agent: In a world of profound flux, we need the anchor of a hero who is able to do something about the things that we, frankly, have no power over. That, of course, and the fact that the films are bloody good fun.