Only a finish for the ages could do justice to this magnificent series, but Alexander Gordon Smith is the one in control, and I trust his writing instincts.
This is Alex's last opportunity to set the world right, to defeat the powers that run Furnace. The daring young cohorts reach out to take their freedom time and again at the end of the first three books only to have it snatched away, but that pattern has changed by the fifth and final entry in the series, Execution. In defiance of reality a flicker of hope burns within, and this prods them to engineer an escape so improbable as to border on impossible. It's tense and claustrophobic, and many kids sent there crack under the pressure and opt for the permanent relief of suicide, but Alex, Zee, and the friends they make in prison refuse to give up. Every Escape from Furnace book, though the first three in particular, brings readers tantalizingly near the sweet freedom we crave ever since Alex Sawyer is framed for the murder of his best friend and sentenced to Furnace Penitentiary, stowed more than a mile underground where no inmate has a realistic chance of seeing daylight ever again. When the time comes to wrap up a story, Alexander Gordon Smith usually delivers.
His first book, The Inventors, written with his nine-year-old brother Jamie, was published in the U.K.
The endless research for these projects led to countless book ideas germinating in his head. He also started writing literally hundreds of articles, short stories and books ranging from Scooby Doo comic strips to world atlases, Midsomer Murders to X-Files.
Along with poet Luke Wright, he founded Egg Box Publishing, a groundbreaking magazine and press that promotes talented new authors. He studied English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia, and it was here that he first explored his love of publishing. After experimenting in the service and retail trades for a few years, Smith decided to go to University. Born in 1979 in Norwich, England, he always wanted to be a writer. Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of the Escape from Furnace series of young adult novels, including Lockdown and Solitary.
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