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Overview

Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted 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. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. 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. And 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.

Together with a bunch of inmates—some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers—Alex plans an escape. But 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.

  • Escape from Furnace
    Escape from Furnace

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780374324919
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date: 10/27/2009
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 98,016
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 1010L (what's this?)
  • Series: Escape From Furnace Series, #1
  • Product dimensions: 5.88 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.04 (d)

Meet the Author

Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of the Escape from Furnace series. Born in 1979 in Norwich, England, he always wanted to be a writer. After experimenting in the service and retail trades for a few years, Smith decided to go to University. He studied English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia, and it was here that he first explored his love of publishing. Along with poet Luke Wright, he founded Egg Box Publishing, a groundbreaking magazine and press that promotes talented new authors. He also started writing literally hundreds of articles, short stories and books ranging from Scooby Doo comic strips to world atlases, Midsomer Murders to X-Files. The research for these projects led to countless book ideas germinating in his head. His first book, The Inventors, written with his nine-year-old brother Jamie, was published in the U.K. in 2007. He lives in England.

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Lockdown

Escape from Furnace 1
By Smith, Alexander Gordon

Square Fish

Copyright © 2010 Smith, Alexander Gordon
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780312611934

NO WAY OUT

If I stopped running I was dead.

My lungs were on fire, my heart pumping acid, every muscle in my body threatening to cramp. I couldn’t even see where I was going anymore, my vision fading as my body prepared to give in. If the siren hadn’t been hammering at my eardrums, then I’d have been able to hear my breaths, ragged and desperate, unable to pull in enough air to keep me going.

Just one more flight of stairs, one more and I might make it.

I forced myself to run faster, the metal staircase rattling

beneath my clumsy steps. Everywhere around me other kids were panicking, all bolting the same way, to safety. I didn’t look back to see what was behind us. I didn’t need to. I could picture it in my head, its demonic muzzle, silver eyes, and those teeth—like razor wire.

Someone grabbed my arm, pulling me back. I lost my balance, spilling over the railing. For a second the yard appeared five stories beneath me and I almost let myself go. Better this way than to be devoured, right? Then the beast shrieked through its wet throat and I started running again before I even knew I was doing it. I heard the rattle of the cell doors, knew they were closing. If I was caught out here, then I was history. I leaped up the last few steps, hurtling down the narrow landing. The inmates jeered from their cells, shouting for me to die. They stuck out their arms and legs to trip me, and it almost worked. I staggered, lurched forward, falling.

Somehow I made it, swinging through the door an instant before it slammed shut, the mechanism locking tight. The creature howled, a banshee’s wail that made my skin crawl. I risked looking back through the bars, saw its huge bulk bounding past my cell, no skin to hide its grotesque muscles. There was a scream as it found another victim, but it didn’t matter. I was safe.

For now.

“That was close,” said a voice behind me. “You’re getting good at this.”

I didn’t answer, just stared out across the prison. Six stories of cells beneath me and God only knew how many more above my head, all buried deep underground. I felt like the weight of the world was pressing down on me, like I’d been buried alive, and the panic began to set in. I closed my eyes, sucking in as much of the hot, stale air as I could, trying to picture the outside world, the sun, the ocean, my family.

All things I would never see again.

“Yup,” came the voice, my cellmate. “Bet it’s starting to feel like home already.”

I opened my eyes and the prison was still there. Furnace Penitentiary. The place they send you to forget about you, to punish you for your crimes, even when you didn’t commit them. Only one way in and no way out. Yeah, this was my home now, it would be until I died.

That wouldn’t be long. Not with the gangs that eyeballed me from behind their bars. Not with the blacksuits, the guards who ran their shotguns along the railings as they checked the cells. Not with those creatures, raw fury in their eyes and blood on their breath.

And there were worse things in Furnace, much worse. Maybe tonight the blood watch would come, drag me from my cell. Maybe tonight they’d turn me into a monster.

I dropped to my knees, cradling my head in my hands. There had to be a way out of here, a way to escape. I tried to find one in the hurricane of my thoughts, tried to come up with a plan. But all I could think about was how I came to be here, how I went from being a normal kid to an inmate in the worst hellhole on Earth.

How I ended up in Furnace.



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  • Posted June 14, 2011

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    Gold Star Award Winner! The future has arrived, and teen gangs are ruling the streets. Due to major carnage during the "Summer of Slaughter," authorities have cracked down and opened Furnace Penitentiary, a prison set deep underground for the worst teen offenders, where they will never see the light of day again. Alex Sawyer is sentenced to Furnace after being convicted of murdering his best friend, Toby. Alex says over and over again that he did not kill Toby, but his protests fall on deaf ears, even though it's the truth. Alex descends into Furnace, a prison hewn out of rough rock. He immediately notices the weak are prey and the strong will live, as the prison gang threatens his life and his new cellmate, Donovan, educates him on how to survive. There is more to fear than the prison gangs, or the slop called food served in the cafeteria. There are the black suits - enormous, hulking men with silvery-sheened eyes and shark-like grins who guard the prison. There are the wheezers - twisted, malformed creatures in leather overcoats, their faces obscured by gas masks literally stitched to their skin. And there is the bloodwatch - an eerie red light that will suddenly wash over the prison cells in the dead of night, letting the inmates know the wheezers are coming for one of them. Alex struggles to hold on to his humanity, his sanity, and his hope that he will survive Furnace, even if survival means hatching an impossible scheme that could kill him. LOCKDOWN is one of the best books I have read this year! Smith's debut of the ESCAPE FROM FURNACE series keeps the reader fascinated from the first page; this is the first of a fantastic series!

    8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2011

    Great

    To any one who likes a good villain this is your book. The story follows Alex who is fraimed. After his trail Alex is sentenced to life in Furnace. Soon he learns the true horrors that are hidden from the out side. Soon he find that he hae to escape. Only in furnace escape is impossible. So good I had my teacher read part. She had nightmares about it for the next week.
    All in all a great read.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 12, 2011

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    Great book!

    This is book is great! I thought it would be much more scarier but no. Instead it was intense, mind-reeling great book. I enjoyed it more than what I thought I would.

    We meet Alex who has been wrongfully imprisoned. Through the plot, the reader runs with Alex as he is trying to escape the furnace. In the furnace, Alex is quick to learns the in and out of things. Even I was doing my best to catch up with rules and trying to survive! I loved that the plot never once backed down. The plot just kept spinning around the winner bringing to a place of hot fury.

    Fury? Why yes? Being wrongfully imprisoned changed Alex before the reader. He is no longer the stupid boy but now a man trying to survive. I loved how strong and bold he got. He never ceased to amaze me. He spied, broke rules, and is determined to escape.

    Mr. Gordan has intrigued me with the world he created. Greatly written, I entered the world of The Furnace and rooted for Alex. Will he escape. Only the next book will know. Which I am going to get ASAP! Lockdown is an amazing book written to a degree I can not describe. I can still fill the hot air surrounding me as I write this review. Definitely pick up this book. If you want to be completely in the dark, air so hot and humid you can't breath,with your heart racing to escape, read this.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 24, 2010

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    Excellent

    The books cover and description do not disappoint! When I first picked up this book, I thought it sounded interesting, and different from the types of books I usually read. I never have gotten my heart racing from a book, but this one did it! Definitley read this book! You wont be disappointed. It is a little gory, so be warned!

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 11, 2011

    Great Book

    I teach 8th grade, and our school librarian recommended this book to my student. We watched a book trailer for it, and it look interesting, so I stopped by Barnes and Noble to pick up a copy. I must say that for a book that was recommended for my 8th graders, I could not put it down. A quick read, but very addicting.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 9, 2011

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    Not Impressed

    Although Lockdown is well written, I just could not connect with this story. Right from the start I really didn't get the point and could not believe what was happening; and it only got worse. Little kids in prison for life in what is the equivalent of hell? I don't thinks so. An adult would have a difficult time surviving such trauma and hopelessness but the author expected me to believe that children could endure?

    2 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 21, 2011

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    Awesome book

    A real page turner, got it for 2 bucks on itunes and am committed to the series now. It really gets you addicted! Wonderful story and writing.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2011

    AMAZING, AWESOME, AND POSITIVELY INTERESTING

    I can honestly say that thos os one of the best series of the century. Alexander Gordon Smith has certainly outdone himself! And this book, especially, is the best of the series, I must add.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2011

    Fantastic!

    I couldnt put this book down!
    It was detailed and one of my favorites.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 14, 2011

    Four Stars

    Slow begining. It really gets interesting about half way in. The book does not stand alone, which means that by the end of this book you might be disapointed on how suddenly the ending comes. Great characters, and overall great plot, can't wait to read the next book.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted November 30, 2011

    BEst BOOK EVER

    the author used so much detail i felt like i was in furnacce with alex READ NOW

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 29, 2011

    The best

    Keeps me on the edge and end of chapters always have u guessing. Real good book!!!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2012

    His best book in a while!

    This is a great read about a kid named Alex who gets sent to Furnace Penitentiary!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 3, 2012

    This book will send chills down your spine

    This book is teaching a bully a lesson. The name of it is Lockdown. The bully’s name is Alex. Him and his friends were always pushing people around getting what they wanted from them. But very soon they regretted that. Alex does something that gets his friend killed and almost him with it. He gets blamed for the murder but truthfully he never did it, these people in black suits and gas masks on made it look like it was him. Alex gets blamed and sent to a place called furnace. Furnace was a huge jail underground that is filled with pschopaths. Alex has to try and survive and be careful about the choices he makes.
    I really like this story because it scares you and it’s a really intense story through the whole thing. You kind of feel like you are in the story and you have to do your best to survive. If you put yourself in that perspective it makes it a lot better.
    The only thing I didn’t like was how the story ends. Alex makes a few friends but he eventually finds out he wont be with them for too long. With just one little mistake his life could be ruined. I would really recommend this book if you like the feeling of being scared.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2012

    Good storyline

    Very action packed but trapped to read the next in the series...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2012

    Best of books

    Really great book, a must read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 25, 2012

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    Such an awesoooooome book. I could not put it down. This author is the BEST at making you feel what Alex feels. GET THE BOOK IT IS NOT A WASTE OF MONEY YOU HAVE TO READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2012

    Good

    This is an awesome book but the second one its sort of boring
    Good tough

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2012

    WOW!

    I can't wait to read the rest of the series!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2012

    Very quick read.

    I enjoyed this book, it was a quick read and had me from the start.

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