Brutal, vicious and merciless, The Ascent is a heart-thumping expedition through six levels of nightmare fuel to find salvation. A journey through a wicked hellscape created by Adam Platinga to put his characters through the ultimate test with the vilest evil lurking around every corner.
Kurt Argento is an ex-Detroit cop who’s heading west to figure out his life. During a pit stop in a small Missouri town, he stops a crime in progress, but the crooked local Sheriff arrests him on trumped-up charges and sends him to a maximum-security prison while awaiting arraignment. And that’s when things really go to hell. The prison’s security systems fail and inmates start coming from all directions. Even worse, the governor’s daughter is there on a tour and is in mortal danger. Argento’s moral code won’t allow him to sit this one out and joins forces with a small band of guards, civilians employed at the prison and state troopers protecting the young woman to fend off anyone meaning them harm. But to live they’ll have to find a way out. And the only way out is to ascend six floors containing the worst criminals imaginable to get to the roof and call for help.
There is no way to overstate how violent The Ascent is. It’s harsh, wicked, and ruthless. A non-stop barrage of abhorrent conduct perpetrated by the most deplorable and inhumane beings to walk the earth. But it’s counteracted by strength and heroism from righteous individuals with an overwhelming desire to survive, a will to protect the innocent and the wits to overcome adversity. Making for a compelling clash between good and evil and a study in morality located in a place where decency not only doesn’t exist but is a weakness that’s preyed upon.
It’s fucked up, non-stop, balls to the wall insanity that will make you think twice about committing even the smallest of infractions, lest you get a live and in-person front-row seat to this kind of depravity rather than experience it from the pages of a fantastic book and the safety of your own home.
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