Scott's Take: Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel by Alex Segura

 

Enemy of My Enemy: A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel by Alex Segura is the second book in the Marvel Crime series. The series began with Breaking the Dark: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel that came out in the summer of 2024. The third book in the series, Truth to Power: A Luke Cage Crime Novel by S. A. Cosby, is scheduled to be released in September.

 

In this book, Daredevil agrees to represent the Punisher who is on trial for the murder of Wilison Fisk, aka Kingpin, and a cop. The death of Kingpin has started a gang war as various people fight over control of the criminal underworld of New York. At the same time,  there is a deeper conspiracy at work in the Punisher case. Can Daredevil stop this war while trying to uncover the truth?

 

This is action packed legal drama with various villains making appearances and a number of supporting characters. There are also some small tie ins to the first book with Jessica Jones and setup for the third book with Luke Cage. It is not necessary to have read the previous Jessica Jones book at all. The author clearly knows a lot about Daredevil and incorporates stuff from the comics as well as the various Netflix, Disney, television series.

 

The only things that bugged me, at times, was the overuse of animal sounds/metaphors/references. Also, the Punisher does not play a big role in this. I thought he would be basically the second main character and he is not. Unlike a Lincoln Lawyer type series novel, in this case, we do not spend much time at all actually in a courtroom at trial. Instead, the read is focused out of the courtroom while dealing with numerous aspects of the case.

 

I enjoyed this book far more than the Jessica Jones book and I highly recommend it. I am looking forward to the Luke Cage book.

 

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I read this book through Hoopla by way of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

 

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