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

‘… 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)