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Young Junius: Jack Palms Crime, Book 5
The Amazing Prequel Saga of Junius Ponds in 1987
When his older brother gets gunned down, 14-year-old Junius Posey puts down the weed he’s pushing and grips a gun for the first time.
As he makes his way into the Rindge Towers, a territory of vicious drug dealers, Junius is forced to defend his best friend to deadly effect. Now there’s no going back. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see his quest through to its end, he pushes ever farther into the towers to find a woman known as “The Oracle” who might have his answer.
While Junius, his friend, two rival crews, and the police all move toward a final confrontation within the hallways and stairwells of these low-income high-rises, a series of surprising events and shifting loyalties transform the day into a bloody turning point that no one could ever expect.
Young Junius is the thrilling prequel to Seth Harwood’s bestseller Jack Wakes Up. If you like riveting characters in a world of ever-unfolding depths, cinematic storytelling, and fast-paced action, you’ll love this listen!
All books can be listened to as stand-alone.
When his older brother gets gunned down, 14-year-old Junius Posey puts down the weed he’s pushing and grips a gun for the first time.
As he makes his way into the Rindge Towers, a territory of vicious drug dealers, Junius is forced to defend his best friend to deadly effect. Now there’s no going back. Shocked by the violence he’s created and determined to see his quest through to its end, he pushes ever farther into the towers to find a woman known as “The Oracle” who might have his answer.
While Junius, his friend, two rival crews, and the police all move toward a final confrontation within the hallways and stairwells of these low-income high-rises, a series of surprising events and shifting loyalties transform the day into a bloody turning point that no one could ever expect.
Young Junius is the thrilling prequel to Seth Harwood’s bestseller Jack Wakes Up. If you like riveting characters in a world of ever-unfolding depths, cinematic storytelling, and fast-paced action, you’ll love this listen!
All books can be listened to as stand-alone.
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Published December 12, 2025
About the author
Seth Harwood
29 books217 followersSeth Harwood received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to build a large readership for his first novel, JACK WAKES UP, by serializing it as a free audiobook online. Currently audio versions of Harwood’s novels and stories have been downloaded over one million times.
He is the author of six additional novels: THE MALTESE JORDANS, EVERYONE PAYS, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, CZECHMATE, THIS IS LIFE and YOUNG JUNIUS, as well as two collections of short stories, A LONG WAY FROM DISNEY and FISHER CAT. He has also written a novella in the world of Kurt Vonnegut dealing with the themes of time travel, writing, and fatherhood.
Harwood currently lives in western Massachusetts and is at work on a second Clara Donner novel.
He teaches creative writing and English classes at City College of San Francisco, Stanford Continuing Studies, and Harvard Extension. Other jobs throughout the years have included commodities floor trading clerk, bartender, copy-editor, rare book cataloguer, high school English teacher, basketball coach, and freelance journalist.
He is the author of six additional novels: THE MALTESE JORDANS, EVERYONE PAYS, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, CZECHMATE, THIS IS LIFE and YOUNG JUNIUS, as well as two collections of short stories, A LONG WAY FROM DISNEY and FISHER CAT. He has also written a novella in the world of Kurt Vonnegut dealing with the themes of time travel, writing, and fatherhood.
Harwood currently lives in western Massachusetts and is at work on a second Clara Donner novel.
He teaches creative writing and English classes at City College of San Francisco, Stanford Continuing Studies, and Harvard Extension. Other jobs throughout the years have included commodities floor trading clerk, bartender, copy-editor, rare book cataloguer, high school English teacher, basketball coach, and freelance journalist.
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