Furnace: Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith (author) (UK edition)

“My name is Alex and I’m not a killer. They framed me for murder, condemned me to a live in Furnace prison with its punishments and pain. I’ve got to get out of here.”

Beneath heaven is hell. Beneath hell is Furnace. Furnace Penitentiary. The world’s most secure prison for young offenders. It’s 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. Now Alex is caged behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. But death is the least of his worries. The prison is a place of pure evil, where creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night; where deformed beasts howl from blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and as dangerous as the devil himself. Alex must plan the prison break to end all prison breaks, and expose a nightmare hidden from the eyes of the world…