Lockdown (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Alex Sawyer: A boy who gets framed and is sent to furnace, a place where you never want to go and is picked on by the skulls
• Gary Owens: Gary is the new leader of the skulls. He is far more violent than anyone else Alex has encountered in Furnace. In fact, he is probably a sociopath.
• Carl Donovan: A well-built teenager who has been in Furnace for years. Alex's roomate and close friend. Very funny and sarcastic, but also fearful of Furnace and it's monsters.
• The Skulls: A gang from the summer slaughter who Alex picked a fight with. Cruel, violent and deadly.
• The Warden: One of the most powerful people in Furnace. He has eyes you can't look into in person because they contain so much evil and are like black holes.
• Blacksuits: Seemingly invincible soldiers of Furnace.
• Zee: One of Alex's closest friends in Furnace. Also framed for murder, and is taken to Furnace the same time as Alex. Very clever because he used to watch documentaries with his parents.
• Donovan: Alex's roommate and friend in Furnace. He is older and protects Alex.
• Ashley: A new kid that comes into Furnace after Alex. He is bullied relentlessly by the skulls.
• Toby: A kid that comes in to Furnace after Alex, at the same time as Ashley. Toby has more strength of character than Ashley and becomes Alex's friend.
• Kevin: The leader of the skulls and can be considered a coward for relying on his gang to back him up so much
• Monty: A fat boy who arrives with Alex and Zee.; gets picked on relentlessly by the skulls.

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• “This book so far is amazing i hope who ever else reads the would love this.”

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• “Beneath heaven is hell, boys, and beneath hell is Furnace. I hope you enjoy your stay.”

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• I DON’T BELIEVE THAT anyone truly loses their fear of the dark. Yeah, grownups act like they feel at home when the lights are out, they say there’s nothing to be afraid of, that nothing’s changed just because you can’t see anything.

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• “Well, we figured a way out. We actually found a way of escaping. It doesn’t matter if we make it or not, we still beat the system. Right now, Donovan, right now we’re free.”

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• I defy even the bravest adult to spend the night in a place like Furnace in the pitch black without thinking that every noise is something right behind you with dagger teeth and eyes of silver and blood on its breath; that every whisper of air that runs over your skin is the rush of a descending blade; that every flicker of movement is a tendril of darkness wrapping itself around your throat and coiling in the pit of your belly, where it feasts on your soul.

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• “After a day you think you’re going crazy. After two days you think you’re in hell. After three days you lose a little piece of yourself that you don’t get back. I never heard of anyone being in there more than four days and surviving. That place drives your soul right out of your body. It’s the screams you hear when you’re down there, like demons. They don’t ever shut up.”

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• I killed my mom’s boyfriend ’cause he was beating her up every night. Just couldn’t take it anymore. I snapped, hit him with a candlestick. Was a lucky hit, I guess, for an eleven-year-old. Or unlucky, depending on how you look at it.”

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• “Obedience is the difference between life, death, and the other varieties of existence on offer here in Furnace,” the image spoke, the voice amplified through hidden speakers to a volume that made the ground vibrate.

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• “In the dead of night they come for you, Alex,” he said. “Sooner or later they come for everyone.”

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• “Alex Sawyer. Prisoner number 2013834. Cell number F11, sixth level. Cellmate Carl Donovan.”

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• “Montgomery Earl,” the warden continued, looking at the doughy kid. “Prisoner number 2013833. Cell number E15, fifth level. Cellmate Kevin Arnold.”

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• Furnace

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• The Skulls: A gang from the summer slaughter who Alex picked a fight with. Cruel, violent and deadly.

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Followed by Solitary.

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1. Alexander Gordon Smith (Author)

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This book is best suited for teenagers due to the content in the novel, which may give younger readers nightmares.

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• Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Boys & Men › Fiction
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror › Mysteries, Espionage, & Detectives
• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Action & Adventure
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Adventure & Thrillers
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction

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• Alexander Gordon Smith's official website: Contains all official infomation relating to Alexander's future novels.

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