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In 1347 the
English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a
truce.
But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond,
there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the
most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his
ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with
his deadliest enemy, Guy Vexille.
Once in the south country Thomas becomes a raider, leading his
archers in savage forays that will draw his enemy to his arrows.
But then his fortunes change. Thomas becomes the hunted as his
campaign is destroyed by the church. With only one companion, a
girl condemned to burn as a heretic, Thomas goes to the valley
of Astarac where he believes the grail was once hidden and might
still be concealed, and there he plays a deadly game of hide and
seek with an overwhelming enemy.
Then, just as Thomas succeeds in meeting his enemy face to face,
fate intervenes as the deadliest plague in the history of
mankind erupts into Europe. What had been a landscape of
castles, monasteries, vineyards and villages, becomes death's
kingdom and the need for the grail, as a sign of God's favour,
is more urgent than ever.
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