Genesis

The Creation of Unit 317 (A Prequel to the Fernsby's War Series)

By: J. C. Jarvis

Narrated by: Hugh Weller-Poley

Before Michael Fernsby. Before Ryskamp. There was Genesis.

Autumn 1938. In the wake of recent intelligence disasters, British officials authorise the creation of a covert unit that will operate beyond diplomacy, outside the law, and with complete deniability.

William Carter is a gifted young codebreaker with no experience beyond the safety of his desk. When he is summoned to London without warning, he finds himself recruited into a team unlike any other. Led by Major Tony Sanders and joined by seasoned operatives Richard Keene and Jamie Hawke, Carter is thrown into the shadows of a war that has not yet begun.

Their first mission takes them deep into Czechoslovakia. The objective is urgent. Rescue a captured British officer before he can be broken. What begins as a quiet extraction quickly becomes a race against time, as Hitler’s grip tightens around Europe and betrayal looms on every side.

Genesis is the untold beginning of Unit 317. Set before the events of Ryskamp, it is a taut and emotionally charged prequel to the Fernsby’s War Series.

©2025 J. C. Jarvis (P)2025 J. C. Jarvis

Stop: proceed with caution

Don’t wanna spoil it, but a key character dies in action in middle of book - listened three times & can’t figure out what actually killed him. Prequel maybe means more to someone who read a few installments in the series. Writing is really amateurish, but like the WW2 espionage genre, so gonna move to book 1 anyway and see if series really deserves a prequel…
Update: got about 30 minutes into book 1 and ended up returning. Didn’t get far, but heard enough. It reads like an 8th grade creative writing assignment