Enemy of My Enemy

A Daredevil Marvel Crime Novel

De: Alex Segura

Narrado por: Michael David Axtell

Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Alex Segura (Secret Identity) pens an all-new streets-to-courtroom noir tale of the Punisher on trial for the murder of the Kingpin—with Matt Murdock as his defense attorney. Book two in the Marvel Crime series of thrillers for adult listeners.

When reports come in that the Kingpin and a police officer have been killed and that Frank Castle (aka the Punisher) has turned himself in for it, Matt Murdock senses holes in the narratives the media and the streets are quick to run with.

Both criminals have been Matt’s nemeses when he dons the cowl of the Daredevil, and there’s no denying that New York is better off without its Kingpin and with the Punisher behind bars. And yet ... while the Punisher is a murderous vigilante, he doesn’t kill cops. And he doesn’t turn himself in.

Castle certainly deserves prison for all of the other crimes he has committed in the past. However, Matt’s indominable sense of justice insists that nobody should be locked away for crimes they didn’t actually commit. Representing the vigilante in court, Matt enters a contest of wills and guile with Castle to try and uncover the game beneath the game. And when Matt’s girlfriend takes the stand and complicates matters, there’s truly no rest for the wicked or the just. As the Kingpin’s absence causes passion and ambitions to run hot in Hell’s Kitchen, Matt must decide if justice means the letter of the law, what’s best for the citizen on the streets, or where his heart leading him.

Enemy of My Enemy continues the Marvel Crime series that began with Lisa Jewell’s Breaking the Dark and brings fans into a grittier, street-level side of the Marvel Universe. Marvel Crime novels build on one another but do not require in-depth familiarity with Marvel or the other books in the series.

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A Daredevil must-read!!

What an immersive story. I’d be willing to argue the equivalent of Batman: Hush but for Daredevil. So many famous characters playing a part in this thriller of both Superhero and Courtroom stakes. Any Daredevil fan should pick up this book immediately! The narration is also so amazing. Every character feeling distinct, completely immersing you in the story.

Solidly entertaining Marvel novel

This book was good, but not great. It was a solidly entertaining listen for the car.

As a long-time fan of Marvel comics, and Daredevil in particular, I appreciated all the liitle details that got thrown into the story. You definitely don't need to have read the comics to understand the action, but those little Easter eggs really added to the experience of the book for this comic book nerd.

I really appreciated all the lawyer stuff happening in the book. The lawyer side of Matt is very important in the comics, but not so much in the TV show, so I appreciate the amount of legal drama we got in the novel.

Regarding the audio, I'd say the narrator was pretty good. Men can never do a decent female voice, and that's fine. I thought he did a fine job otherwise. He has a lovely voice.

Now, as to why I knocked it down a star - all the visual references for DD/Matt. They were so frequent, it honestly felt for a while that the author forgot he was writing a blind character. And I'm not being pedantic and asserting something like "Blind people don't say 'See ya later.'" (They do.) I'm talking about instances where Matt/DD either did something or knew something that he couldn't have because he's blind.

The most egregious one was when the author wrote, "Matt looked at his watch." Umm, no. A blind person feels their watch, they don't look at it. And Matt's radar sense is not precise enough to allow him to sense a tiny clock dial. He could have just written, "checked his watch." Why "looked"? There were actually many instances where the author wrote that Matt/DD "looked" at something, and the word choice felt lazy to me.

There was also a scene in the book where Matt is either dreaming about or thinking about a person he met as an adult. There are visual descriptors of that character, including color. If it's Matt's dream, none of the visual details should be there. He does not have a visual memory of anyone he met after his childhood accident.

These are just two examples of many. I won't bore you with any others. But suffice it to say, there were many instances within this novel where I felt like the author forgot that his protagonist does not experience the world through his eyeballs.

Solid, but not Segura’s best work

I’m a big fan of Segura’s writing, and his other audiobooks Alter Ego and Secret Identity, are fantastic. I don’t know if it’s because he was limited to the boundaries of the Daredevil IP, or what, but he seemed to play it really safe with this one.

Does that make it bad? No, not necessarily. It’s just not mind-blowing.

Additionally, the narrator will go from seemingly no range, to having tons of range. His inner-narration voice and talking voice for Matt have almost no difference, and his side characters can sound the same until he starts voicing some other key Marvel characters. Maybe it’s his tone? I just found myself zoning out a lot on this one.

If you want a solid Daredevil story, you could certainly do worse than this one. Just maybe don’t have expectations set too high.

Excellent

This does for Daredevil what Hush did for Batman. A deep dive into the Daredevil lore by way of a clever mystery. It taps into a ton of characters from DD’s world in a way that makes sense. Well done.

Pretty good

This was a lot of fun. Loads of really well realized characters, proper comic book action and crime drama, just like a Daredevil story should be. The story is quite predictable and I think the phrase "(x) knows that Daredevil and Matt Murdock are one and the same" appears about a dozen times in total. The narrator has a limited range but he obviously knows that and works well within it.