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The first of Titan´s new series of original Marvel novels, starring Spider-Man´s arch foe Venom in his anti-hero role as the Lethal Protector.

Eddie Brock / Venom leaves New York for San Francisco, where he becomes the protector of an underground community of homeless. He is attacked by police and mercenaries alike, leading Spider-Man to go after Venom to bring him in. Together they discover an organization hidden beneath the Mojave Desert seeking to separate Brock from his symbiote and use it to create more vicious versions of Venom.

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"Fantastically reverent but also re-inventive, Venom fans should be more than satisfied with this take on one of the titular anti-hero´s most famous tales." - Adventures in Poor Taste

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

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