“I can tell you the exact moment that my life went to hell”īut also a sense of self-consciousness that is necessary for the bonding between this guy who is at first, an irresponsible bully, a burglar and the reader. His opening words bear a portent of things to come:
Once there, you are there for life with absolutely no contact with the exterior world, no right to visits and no parole.Įnter Alex Sawyer, our 14 year old protagonist. A high security prison, located one mile beneath the surface, with only one entrance and no way out. In this zero –tolerance estate of affairs, any teenage that commits murder is sent to the Furnace. Oh noes), a few years after the Summer of Slaughter when teenage gangs went totally locos on a killing spree, resulting in a new society with draconian measures against teenage misbehaviour. 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.īritain – some point in the future (when there is an Indiana Jones 5 movie. Together with a bunch of inmates-some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers-Alex plans an escape. 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. 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. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. 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. Summary: Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. He was SO passionate about his books and they sounded so cool that I just had to buy a copy. Why did I read the book: I met Alexander Gordon Smith in London at Forbidden Planet’s Guillermo del Toro signing. Book two is called Furnace: Solitary and book 3 is Furnace: Death Sentence (to be published in October) Stand Alone or series: First book in a planned trilogy.
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