God's Secret Agents

<p>One evening in 1588 just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk England. They were Jesuit priests Englishmen and 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.</p><p>Eighteen years later their mission would be shattered by the actions of the Gunpowder Plotters -- a small group of terrorists who famously tried to destroy the Houses of Parliament -- for the Jesuits were accused of having designed that most horrid and hellish conspiracy.</p><p>Alice Hogge follows God's secret agents from their schooling on the Continent through their perilous return journeys and lonely lives in hiding to ultimately the gallows. She offers a remarkable true account of faith duty intolerance and martyrdom -- the unforgettable story of men who would die for a cause undone by men who would kill for it.</p>