The Ascent

✍ Scribed by Adam Plantinga

• Book ID: 112140568
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 194 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781538739877

✦ Synopsis

When a high security prison fails, a down-on-his luck cop and the governor 's daughter are going to have to team up if they're going to escape in this "jaw-dropping, authentic, and absolutely gripping" (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author) debut thriller from Adam Plantinga, whose first nonfiction book Lee Child praised as "truly excellent."
Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go--and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism.

If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage.

When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison.

Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the prison. But when a malfunction in the security system releases a horde of...