Fall of Knight - Softcover

David, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441015069 ISBN 13: 9780441015061

Publisher: Ace, 2007

Synopsis

When Gwen DeVere Queen miraculously survives an assassination attempt, Arthur Penn is forced to reveal his true identity as King Arthur and the existence of the Holy Grail, but when he is flooded by desperate requests for healing, he bottles the water from the Grail, unknowingly tainting the purpose of this holy cup's existence. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. The New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels lives with his wife, Kathleen, and his children Shana, Gwen, Ariel, and Caroline.

From Publishers Weekly:

The conclusion of David's 21st-century Arthurian trilogy will please fans of the previous two books, Knight Life and One Knight Only, but those expecting humorous fantasy on the level of Terry Pratchett or Monty Python will be disappointed. King Arthur, who has served as the mayor of New York City and even as president of the United States under the name Arthur Penn, is suddenly forced to tell the world who he really is and that he possesses the Holy Grail. Attempts to go mass market with the Grail's curative properties create complications involving Nazis and assorted other menaces. Despite the author's propensity for punning titles and silly archaisms like "Ye Olde Interlude," the resultant oil-and-water mixture achieves neither comedy nor drama, much less a blending of the two as in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. The incongruity of great, mythic figures behaving (or speaking) in an entirely banal and trivial manner is, alas, only that. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0441015069
• ISBN 13: 9780441015061
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352