{"product_id":"gods-secret-agents-queen-elizabeths-forbidden-priests-and-the-hatching-of-the-gunpowder-plot-paperback","title":"God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Hogge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young Englishmen landed in secret on a Norfolk beach. They were Jesuit priests. Their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of a small group of terrorists, the Gunpowder Plotters; they themselves had been accused of designing 'that most horrid and hellish conspiracy'; and the future of every Catholic they had come to save depended on the silence of an Oxford joiner, builder of priest-holes, being tortured in the Tower of London.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'God's Secret Agents' tells the story of Elizabeth's 'other' England, a country at war with an unseen enemy, a country peopled - according to popular pamphlets and Government proclamations - with potential traitors, fifth-columnists and assassins. And it tells this story from the perspective of that unseen 'enemy', England's Catholics, a beleaguered, alienated minority, struggling to uphold its faith.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUltimately, 'God's Secret Agents' is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Hogge was educated at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She lives in London. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52915236372796,"sku":"9780007156382","price":34.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/7265\/1324\/files\/bSs0bGNLZ0c1WURIakwyMHJYZ3ljUT09.webp?v=1774361041","url":"https:\/\/barginbooks.co\/products\/gods-secret-agents-queen-elizabeths-forbidden-priests-and-the-hatching-of-the-gunpowder-plot-paperback","provider":"Books Fare ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}