Lockdown Lockdown

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2009
October 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
646.5
KB
AUDIENCE
Grades 7-12

Customer Reviews

Tygfiibccd ,

Intense

Extremely good book. I couldn't put it down. It was somewhat dark and scary at times. I hope this author makes more books. I would highly recommend this book.

nachocheezylicious ,

Not scary.

Nope it's not a scary book it's really good

luvslily2 ,

Couldn’t put this down

I couldn’t put this book down once I’d started it. It wasn’t an overly complex book but not childish either. Equal parts easy, light and frighteningly disturbing!!

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