cover image X-Men: The Legacy Quest Trilogy: Book 1

X-Men: The Legacy Quest Trilogy: Book 1

Steve Lyons. ibooks, $14 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-7434-4468-2

Steve Lyons, the author of a dozen Doctor Who novels and a contributor to various Marvel anthologies, launches a new trilogy with X-Men: The Legacy Quest (devotees take note: the books are set shortly after X-Men issue 87). Beast Hank McCoy wants to discover the cure to the Legacy Virus (to which only mutants are susceptible), but so does the villainous Sebastian Shaw, aka the Black King, who's just kidnapped X-Men pal Moira McTaggart; it's up to Hank to determine whether joining forces with an old enemy will save the day in this solid cliff-hanger.