{"product_id":"gods-secret-agents-queen-elizabeths-forbidden-priests-and-the-hatching-of-the-gunpowder-plot-9780007156382","title":"God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Hogge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780007156382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43093256700019,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":18.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b123305c-a519-4027-8f00-feac3753d90f.jpg?v=1748525408","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/gods-secret-agents-queen-elizabeths-forbidden-priests-and-the-hatching-of-the-gunpowder-plot-9780007156382","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}