The Grail Quest · Book 1
Harlequin (The Archer's Tale)
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 478
- ISBN-13
- 9780007843800
- Type
- novel
About this book
Harlequin, published in the UK in 2000 (as The Archer's Tale in the US), opens the Grail Quest with archer Thomas of Hookton drawn into his dead father's secret hunt for the Holy Grail against the backdrop of the Hundred Years' War.
Its place in The Grail Quest
Harlequin (The Archer's Tale) is book 1 in the The Grail Quest series. It is followed by Vagabond. See the full The Grail Quest reading order.
The Grail Quest follows Thomas of Hookton, an English archer and disgraced priest's son fighting through the early, brutal decades of the Hundred Years' War, from the chevauchée that ends at Crécy to the siege of Calais and the campaign that culminates at Poitiers. Thomas is drawn — reluctantly, then obsessively — into his dead father's secret: a hunt for the Holy Grail, tangled up with a heretical relic-hunting brotherhood, a vengeful cousin, and the Church's own uneasy relationship with the legend. Cornwell…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007843800