Venom: Lethal Protector Prose Novel [Tuck, James R.]

Eddie Brock / Venom leaves New York for San Francisco, where he becomes the protector of an underground community of homeless. He is attacked by police and mercenaries alike, leading Spider-Man to go after Venom to bring him in. Together they discover an organization hidden beneath the Mojave Desert seeking to separate Brock from his symbiote and use it to create more vicious versions of Venom.