Publisher's Synopsis
On a cold November night in 1605, Guido Fawkes is discovered with thirty-six kegs of gunpowder beneath the Palace of Westminster. His plan: to blow to pieces the King, royal family and the entire Protestant ruling class. But there is a wider plot, one that goes far beyond a simple explosion - one that calls for an uprising and the kidnap of a nine-year-old princess, with the aim of placing her on the throne.