The Grail Quest Books 1-3: Harlequin, Vagabond, Heretic

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The Grail Quest Books 1-3: Harlequin, Vagabond, Heretic
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling Grail Quest Trilogy in one complete eBook for the first time. Follow the famed archer Thomas of Hookton as he avenges his father’s death and retrieves a stolen relic.HARLEQUIN1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The archers, the common men, are England’s secret weapon. The French know them as Harlequins. Thomas Hookton is one of these archers. But he is also on a personal mission: to avenge his father’s death and retrieve a stolen relic. Thomas begins a quest that will lead him to finally where the two armies face each other at Crecy.VAGABOND1346. England lies exposed to the threat of invasion. Thomas of Hookton finds himself back in the north as the Scots invade on behalf of the French. He is determined to pursue his quest: to discover whether a relic he is searching for is the Holy Grail.HERETICThe Hundred Years War has been suspended. The truce release Thomas of Hookton to pursue his arch enemy and resume his quest for the prized relic: the Holy Grail. But fate strikes and the plague grips hold. And the Holy Grail is needed more than ever as a sign of God’s favour.

The Grail Quest Trilogy

HARLEQUIN

VAGABOND

HERETIC

Bernard Cornwell

Copyright

These novels are entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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Harlequin first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000

Vagabond first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2002

Heretic first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2004

Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2000, 2002, 2004

Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of these works

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

EBook Edition © June 2013 ISBN: 9780007531509

Version: 2017-05-08

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Table of Contents

Title Page (#uf1bb5e63-eaf6-5236-9e4f-75265b4ad4eb)

Copyright (#u4b20c615-7505-508d-9952-dffb7ef91b88)

Harlequin (#ua173872d-f648-52cc-bf24-07e5930d0049)

Vagabond (#uffb4e6ce-8d42-570c-a9de-438a2546e19d)

Heretic (#ub3db812e-ba20-5b47-b120-cd1c7ff645c8)

About the Author (#u31667ed6-08a0-5779-a401-a3a4cb74ef6c)

Also by Bernard Cornwell (#uc123c871-cd81-5958-94f4-c893df5d51c9)

About the Publisher (#u0ce25324-edd2-59d5-bf4c-9d574b1dc877)

Harlequin

HARLEQUIN

BERNARD CORNWELL

Copyright (#ulink_03c05282-97be-5bb4-8652-f496905d144c)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000

Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 2000

Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Source ISBN: 9780007310302

EBook Edition © 2009 ISBN: 9780007338788

Version: 2017-05-08

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books

HARLEQUIN

is for Richard and Julie Rutherford-Moore

‘… many deadly battles have been fought, people slaughtered, churches robbed, souls destroyed, young women and virgins deflowered, respectable wives and widows dishonoured; towns, manors and buildings burned, and robberies, cruelties and ambushes committed on the highways. Justice has failed because of these things. The Christian faith has withered and commerce has perished and so many other wickednesses and horrid things have followed from these wars that they cannot be spoken, numbered or written down.’

JEAN II, KING OF FRANCE, 1360

Harlequin, probably derived from the old French

hellequin: a troop of the devil’s horsemen.

CONTENTS

Title Page (#u1eed1795-f3c2-5c42-a9cd-98bc5d3c6631)

Copyright (#u7fc1e93e-a94e-5be6-9138-7934f02917b0)

Dedication (#ud103eed8-dc82-5753-8c5c-15c55253d65f)

Epigraph (#ua5b02305-c3de-5278-ad47-37a07ca37f85)

Map (#u82d796fe-e4ad-5f2a-a029-eade0c0e9a38)

Prologue (#u361c4bb7-eb0a-5a95-9e76-0f6c4d52f695)

Part One: BRITTANY (#u31557f2b-f5f8-569a-8ead-e55e2c84580b)

It was winter … (#u20715691-540a-5c6f-ba81-c07d6bd40845)

Thomas crouched beside … (#u3a5bc0c8-df2e-5d8e-aeb7-9a8ac4cb72b8)

Thomas was woken … (#u372feffc-53ba-5c01-afaf-f227f196af64)

There was a … (#uab500c35-13d2-5af6-96d9-bd1efb8e39cc)

Quatre Vents had … (#u6571e1a0-fd41-5517-97d2-0e83edd294ff)

The city’s cockerels … (#ua8de6cd9-b27d-5e26-8320-359eee6533f1)

Part Two: NORMANDY (#ud59b447d-c23e-5f44-81f5-563e41865fd7)

The Earl of … (#uac28a9c5-6705-5069-bfca-1ce8b66ed7db)

Perhaps Thomas was … (#u18f7aec6-96f8-5f70-a24a-f5d346d7ec25)

Next morning Sir … (#u70cb62bc-f9bb-5662-88e6-22d62b36e13a)

Eleanor had been … (#u3072b911-10db-5d36-b1f5-610b9dbd42b6)

Part Three: CRÉCY (#u0f2286c0-3dae-5ddc-8f51-d0dd75ce90ff)

The whole English … (#u96527b68-5688-525d-b174-ba3b351b414a)

The English waited … (#ue5da8270-6068-5524-b0e6-06aca7e8c89f)

If a plum … (#uf9d4ed78-8863-5e7d-a11e-75826b2465b7)

Historical Note (#u441e7430-4dbb-5766-8513-b385ab11ee3a)