Furnace Penitentiary is the world's most secure prison for young
offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Alex Sawyer is the
"new fish." Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life
without parole, he knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign
himself to death in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in
Furnace, death is the least of his worries. 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. Escape is Alex's only option. But it's not
just about saving his own skin. The more he discovers, the more he
understands that he is going to have to do whatever it takes to expose
this nightmare hidden from the eyes of the world. Fast-paced and full of
shocks and terrors, Lockdown is the incredible first book in Alexander
Gordon Smith's Escape from Furnace series.