by S. A. Cosby
First published 2026
Luke Cage gets a tip about advanced cybernetics turning up in the hands of small-time criminals, and someone needs to find out where the tech is coming from. He takes the job, targeting a medical device factory in rural Virginia. Before he can leave New York, he learns his cousin, who had already gone south to scout the plant, is dead. The police call it an accident. Luke does not buy it. He arrives in Majestic, Virginia carrying guilt and a promise to his aunt that he will find the truth. The town pushes back hard. The local sheriff makes his prejudices plain. Ordinary residents line up to test themselves against the man from Harlem. And something worse than one corrupt factory is taking root, spreading through living rooms and back roads alike. Luke Cage is unbreakable. He is counting on that being enough. S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of King of Ashes, brings his crime-fiction instincts to Marvel's street-level thriller series for adult readers.
Genres: american-fiction, crime, adult, mystery-thriller, superheroes
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, gritty, suspenseful
Tropes: conspiracy-uncovered, fish-out-of-water, revenge-quest
Setting: New York, Harlem, Majestic, Virginia, Rural Virginia
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
320 pages · Hardcover · Hyperion Avenue
Content warnings: murder, racism, violence