The Enemy Within (2012)
“Now, as darkness fell, that fog was back, more virulent – more malevolent – than ever.
Looking out of his office window at the swirling menace below, Woodend found himself wondering if there had been a fog like this on the night of 4th November 1605.
He pictured Guy Fawkes, hiding in the cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament.
Had he been afraid, as he crouched there behind his barrels of gunpowder? Probably!
But had he been beset by doubts? Definitely not!
Fawkes had not needed to search for any justification for his actions. The king was suppressing the True Faith; therefore the king must be removed. Small wonder, then, that with right, justice and the Lord on his side, he had been willing to commit murder – even though, in the process, many innocent people would die. Small wonder that he had elected to become the enemy within, a human bomb at the heart of England’s centre of government.
Woodend turned his mind from thoughts of the past to the enigma of the man who had so recently ...become the centre of his own existence.MoreLess
Looking out of his office window at the swirling menace below, Woodend found himself wondering if there had been a fog like this on the night of 4th November 1605.
He pictured Guy Fawkes, hiding in the cellar beneath the Houses of Parliament.
Had he been afraid, as he crouched there behind his barrels of gunpowder? Probably!
But had he been beset by doubts? Definitely not!
Fawkes had not needed to search for any justification for his actions. The king was suppressing the True Faith; therefore the king must be removed. Small wonder, then, that with right, justice and the Lord on his side, he had been willing to commit murder – even though, in the process, many innocent people would die. Small wonder that he had elected to become the enemy within, a human bomb at the heart of England’s centre of government.
Woodend turned his mind from thoughts of the past to the enigma of the man who had so recently ...become the centre of his own existence.MoreLess
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