Lockdown
By: Alexander Gordon Smith.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Furnace -- 1
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374324919
Subjects: Prisons -- Fiction; False imprisonment -- Fiction; Escapes -- Fiction; Science fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.