Written by Bernard Cornwell
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Bernard Cornwell - The Grail Quest Complete and Unabridged

Harlequin

Read By: Sean Barrett

Running Time: 12:40

Description

Harlequin (US title The Archer's Tale) begins a series of stories set in the middle of the fourteenth century, an age when the four horsemen of the apocalypse
seem to have been released over Europe. This first book tells how Thomas of Hookton leaves his native Dorset to fight aginst the French in Brittany and,
afterwards, at the battle of Crecy in Picardy. It is a tale of longbows and butchery, especially when England's archers swarm into the Norman city of Caen.
And over it all, like a dream, hovers the grail which is the epitome of chivalry and Christian decency, qualities which are in desperately short supply
as the armies of France and England struggle at the beginning of what will be known as the Hundred Years War.


Vagabond

Read By: Sean Barrett

Running Time: 14:10

Description

Vagabond is a follow-up to Harlequin (The Archer's Tale in the US) - and starts almost as soon as the earlier book ends, carrying on Thomas of Hookton's
story. He has been sent back to England to pursue his father's mysterious legacy which hints that the Holy Grail might exist and gets tangled with the
Scottish invasion of 1347. He survives that only to discover that various powerful folk in France are pursuing the same quest, a complication that takes
Thomas back to Brittany and the brutal fighting about La Roche-Derrien.

Heretic

Read By: Sean Barrett

Running Time: 12:10

Description

Heretic is the third in the 'Grail Quest' series, and it takes Thomas of Hookton south into Gascony and to a final confrontation with his cousin, Guy Vexille.
The novel begins with the fall of Calais, and most of the events occur in the subsequent truce, but for Thomas and his companions there can be no truce,
only a vicious small war which ends with them being besieged, not just by enemies intent on finding the grail, but by the Black Death.