God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
&#8220;Hogge&#8217;s absorbing narrative of the experience of [Catholic] underground life reads like a historical novel.&#8221; (The Guardian)&#8220;Hogge deftly narrates the seething world of religious conflict in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)&#8220;An illuminating look at an often overlooked period of church-state turmoil . . . Draws surprising parallels with events today.&#8221; (National Catholic Reporter)&#8220;An exciting account of the Catholic resistance in England under Elizabeth.&#8221; (New Statesman)&#8220;Compelling storytelling.&#8221; (The Observer)&#8220;Alice Hogge&#8217;s vivid narrative culminates in a gripping account of the [Gunpowder] Plot and its disastrous denouement.&#8221; (Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books)&#8220;A well-researched, skillfully crafted book that evokes the physical as well as the intellectual world of Renaissance English Catholicism.&#8221; (Weekly Standard)&#8220;A tense, taut, real-life political thriller.&#8221; (Booklist)&#8220;[A] vivid and moving portrait of the Counterreformation in the Elizabethan age.&#8221; (The Spectator)&#8220;Paints a vivid picture of the stresses of operating in secret, under false identities, in constant fear of betrayal.&#8221; (London Times)&#8220;The final chapters make moving, even tragic reading.&#8221; (Evening Standard)&#8220;Excellently researched and beautifully written.&#8221; (Financial Times)