Escape from Furnace #1
Alexander Gordon Smith
October 27th, 2009
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Amazon/Book Depository/B&N
Framed for the murder of his best friend, Alex Sawyer is sent to an underground juvenile prison full of frighting experiments, terrifying creatures around every turn, and the usual prison issue of getting shanked in the back.
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.
Being stuck in a place like that for life isn't appealing. Alex finds himself banding together with a small group of like minded people in an attempt to escape.
The first half of the book introduces the horrors of Furnace, which wouldn't be out of place in a Resident Evil game. The second half follows their plan to escape plan in excruciatingly tense detail. The book dead ended at a cliff-hanger and left me frustrated.
This was a book I couldn't put down until that inevitable blank page. I suppose I could pick up the next one.
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