The Grail Quest · Book 3
Heretic
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780007310326
- Type
- novel
About this book
Heretic (2003) closes out the original trilogy that began with Harlequin, running 448 pages as Thomas's path takes him from Calais into southern France -- Bernard Cornwell's characteristically unromantic take on medieval siege warfare and the English longbow's brutal effectiveness.
Its place in The Grail Quest
Heretic is book 3 in the The Grail Quest series. It follows Vagabond. It is followed by 1356. 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 9780007310326