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Vagabond

by Bernard Cornwell

The latest in Cornwell's series about the master archer Thomas of Hookton takes him deep into the Hundred Years War to a monastery where he is sent by the king. Thomas is supposed to recover a diary filled with clues to the Holy Grail, but he becomes involved first with a bloodthirsty band of marauding Scotsmen and then the arch-sadist Dominican, Bernard deTaillebourg, who also wants the diary.

Available editions of Vagabond

	9780060784492, Digital, Harper Audio, None currently available

	9781405696098, Digital, BBC WW, None currently available

	9780060935788, Paperback, Harpercollins, 2006 $1.19 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780060935788

	9780060532680, Paperback, Harpercollins, 2003 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780060532680

	9780060510800, Audio Cassette, Harperaudio, 2002 $5.06 (Good Condition) Other copies of 9780060510800

	9780060517434, Paperback, Harpercollins, 2002 $3.99 (Good ) Other copies of 9780060517434

	9780066210803, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 2002 $4.76 (Used - Acceptable) Other copies of 9780066210803

Publisher Notes

From internationally bestselling author Bernard Cornwell comes the eagerly anticipated sequel in his acclaimed Grail Quest series, in which a young archer sets out to avenge his family's honor on the battlefields of the Hundred Years' War and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.

1347: a year of war and unrest. England's army is fighting in France, and its absence encourages the Scots to invade the old enemy. Thomas of Hookton, sent back to England to follow an ancient trail that suggests his family once owned the Holy Grail, instead becomes embroiled in the savage fight when the Scots come to Durham. Out of the horror he finds a new companion for the quest but also discovers a new and sinister enemy in a Dominican Inquisitor.

All Europe wants the grail. Many may doubt it even exists, but no one would willingly allow an enemy to find Christendom's most precious relic, and Thomas finds himself in a murderous race with the Inquisitor and with Guy de Vexille, the mysterious black rider who murdered Thomas's father (in The Archer's Tale).

Thomas appears to have an advantage in the race. His father bequeathed him a mysterious notebook that confirms the grail's existence and offers clues to where the relic might be hidden. But his rivals, inspired by a fanatical religious fervor, have their own advantage -- the torture chamber of the Inquisition. Thomas, seeking help to decipher the book's cryptic pages, is delivered instead to his worst enemies.

He finds refuge in Brittany, with Jeanette, the Countess of Armorica, but fate will not let him rest. He is thrust into one of the bloodiest and most desperate fights of the Hundred Years' War, the Battle of la Roche-Derrien, and amid the flames, arrows, and butchery of that night, he faces his enemies again.