Truth to Power: A Luke Cage Marvel Crime Novel

Luke Cage plays detective and superhero when he uncovers a conspiracy turning vulnerable Americans into unwitting pawns of a madman.

New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby (King of Ashes) writes an original crime novel starring Harlem’s unbreakable hero for the Marvel Crime thriller series for adult readers.

When advanced cybernetics begin appearing in the hands of low-level criminals, Luke Cage is hired to investigate a factory manufacturing medical devices in rural Virginia. Leaving Jessica Jones during a delicate moment in their relationship, he makes plans to travel south—but is devastated to learn that a cousin who scoped out the plant for him has been found dead. The police report calls it an accident, but Luke has long known that official words are just that: words.

Fueled by guilt and vengeance, Luke arrives in Virginia and promises his aunt he’ll get to the bottom of things. But danger lurks in every living room, barroom, and country road of Majestic, and the local sheriff’s barely concealed prejudices are ready to boil over. Even ordinary people seem to have no qualms about testing their might against the hero from New York City.

As Luke uncovers a conspiracy that stretches to the county line and beyond, a persistent evil begins to take hold of the town, leaving him to hope that his unbreakable skin will protect him long enough to save others and put an end to the hate threatening to engulf the nation.

Truth to Power continues the Marvel Crime series that began with Lisa Jewell’s Breaking the Dark and Alex Segura’s Enemy of My Enemy. Bringing fans into a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe, these novels build on one another but can be enjoyed as standalone reads—and will thrill even those new to the Marvel Universe.