Editing V for Vendetta (section)

===Book 1: Europe After the Reign===
On Guy Fawkes Night in London in 1997, a financially desperate 16-year-old, Evey Hammond, sexually solicits men who are actually members of the state secret police, called "The Finger". Preparing to rape and kill her, the Fingermen are dispatched by [[V (comics)|V]], a cloaked [[Anarchism|anarchist]] wearing a mask, who later remotely detonates explosives at the [[Palace of Westminster]] before bringing Evey to his [[contraband]]-filled underground lair, the "Shadow Gallery." Evey tells V her life story, which reveals her own past and England's recent history. During a dispute over [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]] in the late 1980s, the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]], under the [[President of the United States|presidency]] of [[Ted Kennedy]], entered a global [[nuclear war]] which left [[continental Europe]] and [[Africa]] uninhabitable. Although [[United Kingdom|Britain]] itself was not bombed due to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government's decision to remove [[Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom#US nuclear weapons in the UK|American nuclear missiles]], it faced environmental devastation and [[famine]] due to the [[nuclear winter]]. After a period of lawlessness in which Evey's mother died, the remaining [[corporation]]s and [[Fascism|fascist]] groups took over [[England]] and formed a new [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]] government, [[Norsefire]]. Evey's father, a former [[Socialism|socialist]], was arrested by the regime.

Meanwhile, Eric Finch, a veteran detective in charge of the regular police force ("The Nose"), begins investigating V's terrorist activities. Finch often communicates with the other top government officials, collectively known as "The Head." These individuals include Derek Almond, who supervises the Finger, and <!-- NOT Sutler:: -->Adam Susan,<!-- ::NOT Sutler --> the reclusive Leader of Norsefire, who obsessively oversees the government's ''Fate'' computer system. Finch's case thickens when V kidnaps Lewis Prothero, a propaganda-broadcasting radio personality, and drives him into a [[mental breakdown]] by forcing him to relive his actions as the commander of a [[Death camp|"resettlement" camp]] near [[Larkhill]] with his treasured doll collection as inmates. Evey agrees to help V with his next assassination by disguising herself as a [[Child prostitution|child prostitute]] to infiltrate the home of Bishop Anthony Lilliman, a <!-- preserve Commonwealth English spelling: Paedophile, not Pedophile: START -->[[paedophile]]<!-- END preserve Commonwealth English spelling: paedophile, not pedophile: --> priest, whom V forces to commit suicide by eating a poisoned [[Sacramental bread|communion wafer]]. He prepares to murder Dr. Delia Surridge, a medical researcher who once had a romance with Finch. Finch suddenly discovers the connection among V's three targets: they all used to work at Larkhill. That night, V kills both Almond and Surridge. Surridge leaves a diary revealing that V—a former inmate and victim of Surridge's cruel medical experiments—destroyed and fled the camp and is now eliminating the camp's former officers for what they did. Finch reports these findings to Susan, and suspects that this vendetta may actually be a cover for V, who, he worries, may be plotting an even bigger terrorist attack.