Venom, James R. Tuck
Venom, James R. Tuck
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Venom
Lethal Protector

Author: James R. Tuck, Marvel

Narrator: David Bendena

Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Marvel

Published: 06/08/2021

Categories: Fiction, Superheroes


Synopsis

When Eddie Brock becomes biologically linked to a bizarre alien symbiote, the two share a common goal. At first, they seek to squash their arch-foe Spider-Man. But after repeated attempts, Venom reaches an uneasy truce with the web-spinner. Brock leaves New York and heads west to San Francisco, the city of his birth, eager to put trouble behind him, but trouble has different ideas. Brock commits himself to becoming a defender of the innocent, but he's a six-foot-three-inch, 260 lb. figure with bulging muscles and fangs like a shark. Venom quickly draws attentionfirst from a furious Spider-Man, who's certain Brock has broken his word, then from a team of armored enemies who set out to kill the Lethal Protector. Venom joins forces with the web-spinner only to face an even deadlier threat: five trained killers, each wearing a symbiotic suit like Brock's. These are the Spawn of Venom, and they're out for blood.

About James R. Tuck

James R. Tuck is the author of the Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter series, the co-author of the Robin Hood: Demon's Bane trilogy (with Debbie Viguié), and the co-author of Arrow: Fatal Legacies (with Marc Guggenheim). An accomplished tattoo artist, he loves dark-fantasy novels, Golden Age comics, and the blues and used to throw people out of bars for money. He lives and writes in Atlanta.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

This is the adaptation of a comics arc from Marvel comics. In this one Eddie returns home to San Francisco as he and Spider-Man have called a truce to their battle. While back home Eddie befriends some homeless and learn that they are being displaced from a park where they take refuge. This was a qu......more

Goodreads review by Matisse

Fun stuff. It's interesting reading this story done as prose, as opposed to a 90's comic. The funny part is, the things the author tried to modernize--adding references to "social media", people with smartphones and Internet--seem shoehorned in and awkward. The actual, nuts-and-bolts writing updates......more

Goodreads review by Aaron

Venom: Lethal Protector by James R. Tuck is the first Marvel novel I read and this is based on the actual comic itself. In Lethal Protector, Venom reaches a truce with Spider-Man and moves to San Francisco. Over there, Venom became some sort of anti-hero defending the innocents. In due time, Life Fou......more