Enemy of My Enemy by Alex Segura

 

So Marvel has started using Disney's money to pay successful novelists to write novels centered around Marvel's characters. Sure, I'll bite: There are some good stories in comic books, and Segura's a good mystery novelist. This novel is laden with all kinds of stuff people who are more into Marvel generally and Daredevil specifically will be utterly gaga for, but it's mostly just color; this is at its core a novel about a lawyer dealing with the conflicts between his morals and his ethics, across several threads. It does that really well, though the various comic-book-style fight scenes play a little weird in a text-only format, and all the various vaguely parenthetical references to events from the comic books read like some of the least attractive authorial tics one finds in series novels. The characters manage to come across as themselves--and at least mostly true to their various comic book versions--and the prose and pacing are both very solid. If you like Daredevil or Segura, the book seems like a no-brainer; if you have serious doubts about either (or especially both) you might want to give it a pass.