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Before Jack Palms ever shook 'em down, Junius Ponds came up on tough streets outside Boston way back in the day. In the middle of drugs, gang violence, and the toughest set of tower-projects you ever knew, Young Junius fights to escape the consequences of a murder he had to commit and tries to live long enough to avenge the death of his brother.

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By: Grizzly Smith
I think with this novel, Seth got back to the style and quality he showed in the first Jack Palms novel, "Jack Wakes Up." Sure, there's violence in this story, but there's a very serious attitude about violence. One can really see how the younger Junius in this prequel turns into the Junius Ponds in the first Jack Palms novel. It makes sense of that book in the way reading "The Hobbit" makes sense of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, for example. That's one of the finer things a prequel can do. That's how you know he got it right. A good prequel also has to stand on it's own as an interesting, energetic and vibrant tale in its own right. This one does. It takes the reader into a world that most of us will never visit, and would rather not visit. But it helps, perhaps, understanding how people survive in a world where drugs and guns and blood are always part of business, but not business as usual. Kids still grow up, make mistakes, get into trouble, and survive somehow. Young Junius is an anti-hero, certainly. But he's an anti-hero we can respect, who does what he feels he needs to do. He makes wrong choices, but he's overrun by events outside his control. He feels he must "take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them." In context, what else could he do? And without those events, who might he have been, and what might he have become? We'll never know. But we're given a glimpse of the potentials and forces that made the scared but determined boy into the fierce and indomitable man. You should listen.

By: Scott
this story is badass. Seth does it again. I even talked to my friend from the hood and he says it is straight gansta

By: Mystery Dawg
Another excellent story from the master of crime novel podcasting. Seth draws you from the moment you hear the story and in no time the entire day is gone. Great characters, fine pacing, location, location, location, Seth tells a great story. Can't wait to see this one in print. What in the 'Dickens' is happening here!

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