Harlequin Bernard Cornwell ISBN:0002259656 Harper Collins, London, 2000. Hardback. 1st Edition. Almost as new unread copy , very fine book in fine dustjacket . Tight and clean copy. Slight bumping/creasing to top edge of the jacket. Not inscribed or price-clipped. Full Number line reads 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Book one of the Grail Quest. When Thomas of Hookton's village is sacked by French raiders he becomes an archer, a Harlequin, in the army of King Edward III. Thomas revels in the life of an army at war. He falls in love with a Breton widow and his pursuit of her makes him into a fugitive, hunted by the French and English alike. But a man from the past awaits him, a man who possesses something Thomas once made a sacred promise to retrieve, Christendom's greatest relic, the grail itself. In the midst of that first great battle of what would become known as the Hundred Years' War, Thomas will decide his loyalty at last. [r]
