Escape from Furnace is a series of five novels written by British author Alexander Gordon Smith. The books are written from perspective of the teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer and describe his incarceration in the fictional London prison Furnace Penitentiary. Escape from Furnace: Lockdown is followed by Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives and Execution. Smith followed up the series with a novella, The Night Children, which tells the story of the 17-year-old commissioned officer Kreuz (known as Warden Cross in the series) and his meeting with Alfred Furnace, the prison's founder, and his creatures in the Belgian woods during World War II. Escape from Furnace is the United States title of the series, as in the United Kingdom the series is known as just "Furnace". Source: Wikipedia (en)