Nevertheless, Toby, Alex, Zee, and Gary try their luck to escape the most feared prison of all mankind. The night before, Donovan is one of the boys who is taken away by the wheezers, and the next day, one of the inmates rats them out and Toby is badly wounded from the over-sized explosion. However, the nighttime escape plan doesn't go smoothly. With Donovan's, Zee's, and Toby's help, Alex manages to prepare the escape by collecting methane-filled latex gloves and storing them in the closed off chipping room. If you want to stay up to date with the latest news and competitions, fill in the form The Wheezers keep all of your data safe inside Furnace.

The usual routine involves hard labor, lockdowns, and gag-worthy food, the ugly Warden who everyone is frightened by, skinless and horrible-looking mutant dogs that are allowed to chew inmates alive, the hulk-sized guards in black suits, 'wheezers' that wear gas masks and take kids way at night, vicious gangs and their lust for power and fights, but also his main friendship with Donovan who helps him stay alive.Īlex soon realizes that the only way to survive is to escape is through an underground aquifer which is below one of the mining rooms where they have been working at. Escape From Furnace: Epilogue To download a PDF, click here. Fast-paced and full of shocks and terrors, Lockdown is the incredible first book in Alexander Gordon Smith's Escape from Furnace series.Alex's life in Furnace is horrible.

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. But it's not just about saving his own skin. Born in 1979 in Norwich, England, he always wanted to be a writer. 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. Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of the Escape from Furnace series, including Lockdown. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover the whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. 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.

Furnace Penitentiary is the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface.

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