Harlequin (The Grail Quest, Book 1)

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The first book in Bernard Cornwells bestselling GRAIL QUEST series, in a bright and bold repackage.
The year is 1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army may be led by the King, but it is the archers, the common men, who are Englands secret weapon. The French know them as Harlequins.

Thomas of Hookton is one of these archers. But he is also on a personal mission: to avenge his fathers death and retrieve a stolen relic. Thomas begins a quest that will lead him through fields smeared with the smoke of fires set by the rampaging English, until at last the two armies face each other on a hillside near the village of Crcy.

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Crackling with good deeds, fine characters and sparkling set pieces, it confirms yet again Cornwells reputation for masterly historical novels DAILY MAIL

It is all spectacular, rattling good stuff: war and torture; love, lust and loss THE TIMES

The battle scenes, as always, are masterful; and the vignettes of everyday living, in times of extreme hardship, have the ring of simple truth SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

A very fine writer ECONOMIST

Author Bio

Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina.