The Archer's Tale

From master storyteller Bernard Cornwell comes a spellbinding epic of duty, love, and valor forged in the fires of the hundred years war. A brutal raid on the quiet coastal English village of Hookton in 1342 leaves but one survivor: a young archer named Thomas. On this terrible dawn, his purpose becomes clear: to recover a stolen sacred relic and pursue to the ends of the earth the murderous black-clad knight bearing a blue-and-yellow standard-;a journey that leads to the courageous rescue of a beautiful French woman, and sets him on his ultimate quest: the search for the Holy Grail.

Bernard Cornwell is the internationally famous author of the acclaimed and bestselling Richard Sharpe series (set during the Napoleonic Wars), the Warlord Trilogy (Arthurian England), the Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles (the American Civil War), the novels Gallows Thief, Stonehenge 2000 B.C.-and Vagabond, the sequel to The Archer's Tale. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod.