gunpowder plot, 1605

"Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father's plot to assassinate the king of England"--Provided by publisher.

Recreates the events surrounding the seventeenth-century Gunpowder Plot in which Robert Catesby, Guy Fawkes, and other English Catholics conspired to blow up the House of Parliament and King James I in an effort to reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion.