When this book starts out it introduces two main characters named Alex and Toby, Alex is the main character throughout almost all of the book though. Together Alex and Toby are house thieves, they break into houses and steal other people’s stuff. One night they’re breaking into another house and everything seems as usual, they’re finding what they want to steal when all of a sudden a group of men in suits and gas mask show up and they shoot Alex’s friend Toby and after they shoot him, they throw the gun to him and make him touch it and frame him for the murder of his own friend Toby and that results in Alex getting sentenced to this horrible placed called “Furnace”, Furnace is a horrible youth prison a mile underground that was created because of gangs and young people murdering each other. Furnace is a terrible place to be because there is no
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Alex gets a group of friends within Furnace and they all promise to stick together and stick up for each other because
Alex gets a group of friends within Furnace and they all promise to stick together and stick up for each other because