Glastonbury

Introduction

IntroductionGlastonbury! The name itself conjures up mental images of the England of long ago. Here in the heart of the ancient county of Somerset, stands the home of the first above-ground Christian church in England, the ruins of a centuries old abbey, and the whole town is overlooked by the imposing Glastonbury Tor, with the crumbling remains of St Michael's chapel standing at its head, overlooking the swirling green countryside that surrounds the town. Glastonbury throbs with legend; it is said the bones of Joseph of Arimathea were laid to rest here, as were the mortal remains of the legendary King Arthur. The Arthurian connection is strong in Glastonbury with many believing it to be the site of Arthur's Camelot. Could it have been the home of the famed round table? Did the Knights who formed that noble group, Gawain, Lancelot and Co. really tread this ground? Was the Holy Grail really brought here all those years ago? Is it still here, buried in some long forgotten secret niche known only to those whose bones have long since crumbled to nothing beneath the marshes and mires that once swirled around the Tor, once an island rising up from the wetlands of Somerset, and now cast adrift upon the land-locked plains of South-West England?

For many, Glastonbury is a hallowed place, a town where history and the present exist hand in hand, where the souls and the ghosts of history encroach every so often on the lives of those who exist in tandem with their memory, and who walk where they once walked, talk in the quiet places they once conversed in, and who tread lightly when the sun goes down and the moon rises over the forbidding and compelling hill that stands as an eternal sentinel over the town and keeps its secrets hidden from those who would pry too deep.

Into this land of myth, magic and legend comes a small group of professionals, hired by a mysterious and wealthy entrepreneur who professes to have acquired a map that will reveal the hiding place of one of the most magical and famed emblems of Arthurian legend. For Joe Cutler, Winston Fortune, and Sally Corbett, fame, wealth and riches could be just around the corner, but first they have a job to do, a job that will lead them into far more dangerous corners of this place of myth and legend than they could possibly have foreseen. As the rain falls on Glastonbury they wait and prepare their equipment for the job ahead, and a new Glastonbury mystery waits to be unravelled.