Bøger af Nick Berry

In this latest adventure Zona enters a phantasmagorical world, almost surreal, as though transported into a different, ethereal virtual reality. This is a novel that goes beyond the real and one is never sure what is real and virtual reality. There is a time portal that channels our intrepid warrior princess into a time beyond her classical ancient world, a world beyond her own time zone and eventually beyond the stars, where evil is forever pervasive and ubiquitous and requires a battle to vanquish it. Zona never shirks from this role in the battle of good and evil, for she is our epitome of benevolent goodness, forever dressed in her skimpy battle clothes-though what gives impetus to the drama of the conflict is her surprising new, odd companion that she recues from a futuristic prison! The suspense, as in the earlier novels, never let's up, and the ending will surprise the reader!

Seventeen-year-old Alex Binary doesn't know if she should stay a girl, or appease her best friend Logan and change back into a boy. In the virtual world of Cinder, all minds must choose an identity on their eighteenth birthday. Blonde hair or black, tall or short, boy or girl. For the citizens of Cinder, the decision is crucial. Unfortunately for Alex, it's a decision she may never be able to make. Zeus, a psychopathic artificial intelligence, seeks godhood through the destruction of the virtual worlds. To save them, Alex braves reality and joins forces with a group of rebel A.I.'s intent on defeating the unhinged machine. Along the way, she struggles with concepts of gender, identity, and what it means to be truly human in a world run by programs.

Nick Berry's new book on the adventures of Zona will not disappoint fans of this scantily clad buxom warrior princess with her unique physique and girl-next-door sense of humour. In the opening chapter it's great to meet the team again-Zona and her three faithful followers who have survived the submergence of Atlantis, having been caught up in a gigantic tsunami to be washed up on the shores of Eire! The centre-stage in this novel is of course Eire and the way the author has knitted the story of his traditional heroine Zona into the fabric of the mythological background of Ireland is marvellous. The new 'baddy' and noble characters that emerge here are drawn from Irish legends and are vividly revived in this fresh evocation of historical mythology. If you have fallen in love with Zona, you will not be disappointed in this book. If you have fallen in love with Ireland, as many have, you will find this book the best in all of what we now might call the Zona canon.

Right at the beginning of this new Zona adventure we have the lovely description of the two leading women characters - and then of the other two weird followers we have come to know and love so well in the previous books. The author's seamless melding of author narrative and Zona the protagonist's stream-of-consciousness makes this so readable and believable. As before, there are new wonderful creatures endowed with mythical power that will awe, enchant, horrify or terrify the reader! There is Zona's battle with the Hydra whose swirling tentacles threaten to suck her crew into a bottomless vortex; and there are strange, humanoid creatures adapted to live in decaying subterranean environments - worm men - mutations brought about through debilitating plague that might be infectious. Nick Berry is a master story-teller, and we are transported effortlessly - one might say seductively! - into the strange alien, weird, surreal world of his imagination. - Charles Muller, Diadem Books

About the book: Nick Berry has again proved to be a master at story-telling. Once again he has created a larger-than-life heroine, a warrior woman par excellence, that is both believable and mythical. Strapping and formidable, she embodies the Greek or Platonic concept of the 'ideal', the perfect woman, and yet displays all the natural charm and sparkling sense of humour of the girl next door - a brunette of stunning beauty that one gets to know very quickly and irresistibly. This is the girl-woman that, undaunted, fights the good fight against evil-this time culminating in the City of Babylon. Full marks to the author's meticulous research, for the evocation of this once impressive metropolis is stunning and believable. Zona's encounter with Nebuchadnezzar is spectacular and farcical at the same time, and one reads with bated breath to see how our heroine will extricate herself this time from a dictator's claws! - Charles Muller, Diadem Books.

This new book in the now well-established saga of Zona's adventure is as exciting and nail-biting as ever, crammed with dramatic events, chapters often ending on cliff-hangers, and scenes of rapid, sudden action, with startling realism of gore and guts as our heroine decapitates and disembowels her enemies! What a superb film this novel would make, with its vivid scenarios of action and flying creatures! Here also is a sense of camaraderie, of empathy between humans and horses - and between a mythical cyclops and a fearsome dragon the size of a Boeing 747-8 to boot! Avid readers of phantasmagorical adventures who grew up with Harry Potter but have outgrown him might well welcome these intriguing Zona books which are in the same broad genre. - Charles Muller, Diadem Books

With friend Camilla, Zona escorts diplomat Hosni Pebekkannum home to Heliopolis, Egypt. After war in Latium and Aeneas, it should be easy. It isn't. The city gates bring trouble. Then come scheming lackeys, Pharaoh's second wife Tiye, a murder attempt. Travelling to Ramses' Nile army, the trio are waylaid by Kushites. Zona fights magical and dream monsters, a man convinced she slew his friend. Set free, she has new enemies, and rides for the Nile again. The three Macha brothers want revenge on her for their deceased sibling. They lead the most fearsome fleet ever, that of the Sea Peoples. There is a final climactic battle... About the Author Former Civil Servant and Probation Service Offi cer, Nick Berry has worked in the MOD and is a veteran of the courts. Divorced, with three sons, he reads widely, enjoying music, art and sculpture. Artwork by Carly Edge.