HARLEQUIN: The Grail Quest Book 1

It was the time when the English came across the Channel to take the battle to the French. The army was led by the King, the great lords and knights, but it is the archers, the common men who are to be England's secret weapon. Thomas of Hookton is one of those archers, but he is also on a personal mission - one he frequently forgets in the joy of fighting - to avenge his father's killing by a French raider and to retrieve his family's treasure, a stolen relic. The enemy who awaits him could harness the power of Christendom's greatest relic, the Grail itself. Thomas begins a quest that will lead him through fields smeared with the smoke of fires set by the rampaging English, until at last the two armies face each other on a hillside near the village of Crécy. War, torture, love, lust and loss in a rattling good tale set in 1342. 479pp, paperback.