Hit Hard - Die Last

About this book

Matthias Hues' memoir of the stunts, injuries, and near-misses behind a career built opposite Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and the golden age of direct-to-video action cinema — from No Retreat, No Surrender 2 through I Come in Peace, Kickboxer 2, Star Trek VI, and Digital Man.

In 1986, Matthias Hues stepped off a plane in Los Angeles with a suitcase, a thick German accent, and a certainty that he was going to do something extraordinary. Hit Hard - Die Last is his first-hand account of what came next: the real stunts and real injuries behind a career that ran from No Retreat, No Surrender 2 and The Movie Cage through I Come in Peace opposite Dolph Lundgren, Kickboxer 2, Diplomatic Immunity, a turn in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Talons of the Eagle against Billy Blanks, the TV series Age of Treason, TC 2000, and Digital Man. Chapter by chapter, he walks through the making of each film and show, the industry that built and nearly broke him, and what it actually costs to build a decades-long career as the man on screen you loved to see lose.

Spoiler-free premise

A working action star's own account of the stunts, injuries, and industry politics behind a 35-plus-year career as Hollywood's go-to villain.

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