Vagabond

By: Bernard Cornwell

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Hardcover | 1 September 2002

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The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Harlequin, this is the second instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In Harlequin, Thomas of Hookton travelled to France as an archer and there discovered a shadowy destiny, which linked him to a family of heretical French lords who sought Christendom's greatest relic. Having survived the battle of Crecy, Thomas is sent back to England, charged with finding the Holy Grail. But Thomas is an archer and when a chance comes to fight against an army invading northern England he jumps at it. Plunged into the carnage of Neville's Cross, he is oblivious to other enemies who want to destroy him. He discovers too late that he is not the only person pursuing the grail, and that his rivals will do anything to thwart him. After hunting and wounding him, Thomas's enemies turn him into a fugitive. Fleeing England, he travels to Normandy, determined to rescue Will Skeat, his old commander from Harlequin. Finally Thomas leads his enemies back to Brittany, where he goes to discover an old love and where his pursuers at last trap their reluctant pilgrim. Vagabond is a vivid and realistic portrait of England at a time when the archer w

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If anyone can write poetically about savage warfare and keep his readers' eyes riveted to the page, it's Bernard Cornwell. The sequel to Harlequin and the second in his series The Grail Quest is set in 1346, when the Hundred Years' War is already into its second decade. Thomas of Hookton, having fought gallantly at Crecy, has now been sent to Durham to help quell an invasion by the Scots. The army he joins is vastly outnumbered and the Scots are confident; but the English are skilled tacticians and the use of the longbow - Thomas's weapon - over great distances gives them an advantage. But the King has another and more important mission for Thomas: to find the legendary, elusive and much-coveted Grail, the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper. Inevitably Thomas is not the only one engaged in the search; he has many competitors, all of them ruthless in their determination, and they include Thomas's French cousin and enemy Guy Vexille, Count of Astarac. This is a story of conflict, ambition, greed, superstition disguised as religion and courage. Cornwell has an astonishing ability to project his readers back in time, to see, hear and smell the period and to understand how its people's minds worked. His combination of scholarship with eloquence and imagination gives a picture of the time and its conflicts that can be shocking but is always irresistible. A tour de force. (Kirkus UK)

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