Alice Hogge — God's Secret Agents

HarperCollins 2005 Paperback, 445pp. "Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests And The Hatching Of The Gunpowder Plot. "Using contemporary documents, Alice Hogge's new book pieces together a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between priests and government spies, as Queen Elizabeth and her ministers fought to defend the state, and English Catholics fought to defend their souls. It follows the priests - God's Secret Agents - from their schooling on the Continent, through their perilous return journeys and their lonely lives in hiding, to the scaffold, where a gruesome death awaited them. To their government they were traitors; to their fellow Catholics they were glorious martyrs. It was a distinction that the Gunpowder Plot would put to the test. Ultimately God's Secret Agents is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it. ". Heavy. Birthday inscription on half-title.", (ISBN: 9780007225682). Good.