Close. Flash Thompson comes home from war, having had his legs amputated, and joins the secret government program Project Rebirth. In this program, he is trained to use the heavily sedated Venom symbiote for black ops missions, not being allowed to stay bonded to the suit for over 48 hours since that would risk permanent bonding. He then goes on to join the Secret Avengers, and gets caught up in a very bad situation involving Red Hulk, the new Ghost Rider, X-23, Hell, and Mephisto, in addition to the excellent crossover with Scarlet Spider titled Minimum Carnage.

Ah, thank you very much. Is Agent Venom worth reading?

Quite so, indeed.

I'll have to find it. Along with Red Hood and the Outlaws.

It's an excellent book, the struggle for Flash to remain in control makes for one of the most engaging internal conflicts in comics for quite a while.
And the stories are great too.

I really need to catch up.

My library needs to hurry up with the last trade.

I'm on 32 I think?

For a while Venom was the only book I read, I don't know how I got behind so fast.

The last arc on Venom really is something. I would have loved to see that title continue with a relaunched Marvel Now book.

It's only 36 issues, anyway.

And why doesn't Venom have a new book yet?

Venom was awesome, I don't know why they cancelled it.

I thought it was 40.

No clue.