Marvel’s SPIDER-MAN: Hostile Takeover Out Now

Marvel have released a new novel “Marvel’s SPIDER-MAN: Hostile Takeover”, which helps set up the story for the new PS4 video game, Spider-Man. The book has been written by David Liss and available to purchase from retailers including Amazon.

Here is the official description:

The official prequel to MARVEL’S SPIDER-MAN, the PS4 exclusive video game from Marvel and Insomniac Games, with a thrilling adventure that leads directly into the game narrative itself

THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE BLOCKBUSTER ACTION VIDEO GAME!

PETER PARKER is caught in a complicated web. Working in a cutting-edge laboratory, he’s a young scientist who’s trying to make a difference. Yet he’s constantly burdened by the responsibilities of his second career as the crime-fighting…

SPIDER-MAN

Wilson Fisk—the so-called Kingpin of Crime—has returned to New York, establishing himself publicly as an altruistic entrepreneur and philanthropist. Spider-Man knows better, but he can’t uncover Fisk’s scheme that, if executed, will make the crime lord “too big to fail.”

When a new threat—a deadly doppelganger with Spider-Man’s suit and abilities—wreaks havoc in the streets, can the real wall-crawler prove his innocence? With the clock ticking and lives on the line, can Spider-Man stop the brutal rampage of the Blood Spider? Will Spider-Man fall to his fears and foes, or will he rise and be greater?

Here is a look at the cover: