num_pages: 485
description: The first book in Bernard Cornwell's bestselling Grail Quest series.The year is 1342. The English, led by Edward III, are laying waste to the French countryside. The army may be led by the King, but it is the archers, the common men, who are England's secret weapon. The French know them as Harlequins.Thomas of Hookton is one of these archers. But he is also on a personal mission: To avenge his father's death and retrieve a stolen relic. 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.
language: English
title: Harlequin
titlecomplete: Harlequin (The Grail Quest, #1)
characters: Edward the Black Prince, Thomas of Hookton, Edward III of England
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, British Literature, 14th Century, Medieval, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 30261
series: Grail Quest
publisher: HarperCollins