God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
“Hogge’s absorbing narrative of the experience of [Catholic] underground life reads like a historical novel.” (The Guardian)“Hogge deftly narrates the seething world of religious conflict in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.” (Publishers Weekly)“An illuminating look at an often overlooked period of church-state turmoil . . . Draws surprising parallels with events today.” (National Catholic Reporter)“An exciting account of the Catholic resistance in England under Elizabeth.” (New Statesman)“Compelling storytelling.” (The Observer)“Alice Hogge’s vivid narrative culminates in a gripping account of the [Gunpowder] Plot and its disastrous denouement.” (Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books)“A well-researched, skillfully crafted book that evokes the physical as well as the intellectual world of Renaissance English Catholicism.” (Weekly Standard)“A tense, taut, real-life political thriller.” (Booklist)“[A] vivid and moving portrait of the Counterreformation in the Elizabethan age.” (The Spectator)“Paints a vivid picture of the stresses of operating in secret, under false identities, in constant fear of betrayal.” (London Times)“The final chapters make moving, even tragic reading.” (Evening Standard)“Excellently researched and beautifully written.” (Financial Times)