Book cover for The Last Action Heroes

The Last Action Heroes

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13 June 2024
368 pages
9781529058529
Imprint: Picador

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A book as big and brash as the stars who are its focus. I had a blast reading it - no CGI required.
A lively celebration of 1980s action stars: Sly, Arnie and ‘the muscles from Brussels’.
If it's bulging biceps, titanic tantrums, sculpted shoulders and Herculean drug habits you're after, then Nick de Semlyen is the author for you. His book, The Last Action Heroes, is not bad either, a hugely entertaining romp through 80s and 90s action cinema, every page riddled with a zillion bullet holes
This book takes you so close to the action, you can smell the sweat, cigar smoke, and bad cologne that brought these movies to life. Along the way, Nick de Semlyen reveals tales of stunts gone wrong, conversations between Stallone and Reagan, the origin of Jean Claude Van Damme’s buns, and all of the stories from set that people were too afraid to tell - until now.