Lock down

Escape from Furnace

by Alexander Gordon Smith

Furnace Penitentiary. The world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. One way in, no way out. Once you're here, you're here until you die, and for most of the inmates that doesn't take long not with the sadistic guards and the bloodthirsty gangs. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole,  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.
 In Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where 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 as 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 the prison break to end all prison breaks. 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 world.


 “Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.”
-Donovan, Escape from Furnace.

The setting of this book is in Furnace Penitentiary, it is a mile under ground. It is made completely out of rock.

I would recommend this book to people who like scary books and are 10+ in age.