The Ascent

<P><B>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 <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author) debut <I>USA Today </I>bestselling thriller from Adam Plantinga, whose first nonfiction book Lee Child praised as “truly excellent.”</B><BR/><BR/> Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can’t let injustice go—and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. </P><P> If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage.  </P><P> When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he’s brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. </P><P> 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 secur