Recommended for dystopia, thriller, and horror fans, or anyone looking for a fast-paced, spine-chilling ride.” - Jennifer Robinson's Bookpage As for me, I'm looking forward to future books. “A great next choice for fans of The Maze Runner, The Grassland Trilogy. “This nightmarish start to a new series is unrelentingly bleak, uniquely horrifying, and strangely compelling.” - Realms of Fantasy magazine “Furnace is hotter than hell and twice as much fun! Sign me up for a life sentence of Alexander Gordon Smith!” -Darren Shan, author of the Demonata series Together with a bunch of inmates-some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers-Alex plans an escape.īut as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace's deeper, darker purpose, Alex's actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that's hidden from the eyes of the world. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below.Īnd behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. “Furnace is hotter than hell and twice as much fun! Sign me up for a life sentence of Alexander Gordon Smith!” - Darren Shan, author of the Demonata seriesįurnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface.Ĭonvicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, 'new fish' Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. “Fresh and ferocious, Lockdown will hook boys with its gritty, unrelenting surprises.” -James Patterson In this prison, secret horrors are breaking free.

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