

He then wakes up to Gary and Zee arguing about ditching him. The plot picks right up where the last book ends, Alex is struggling to stay alive in the river, and blacks out vaguely between consciousness and unconsciousness. The book starts off with Alex's confession about stealing from his family, specifically about his grandmother's locket before going into a quick recount of the details of the story so far.

Because if we don’t escape soon they will turn us into freaks – like them. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.Īll we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live – the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse. We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free.
