Beneath heaven is hell.
Beneath hell is Furnace.
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, '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.
Only in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon 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 eyes of the world.
