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Christopher
Dawes lives in a quiet suburban street opposite punk rock legend Rat Scabies,
the former drummer of The Damned and a man in the habit of setting his
drums on fire while playing them. Life with Rat as a neighbour isn't run-of-the-mill
and things get even stranger when he announces they're going to France
to begin a quest for the Holy Grail. The sacred relic has eluded everybody
from King Arthur to Adolf Hitler, but Rat reckons he knows where it's
stashed.
Once they've written a List Of Things To Do ("buy metal detectors
- two!"), the pair get to work on unravelling the mystery, which
involves the Knights Templars, the ancient sorcerer kings of France, a
shadowy secret society called the Priory Of Sion, the CIA, and the remote
and spooky village of Rennes-le-Château in the Pyrenees, where it
begins to look as though someone - or something - wants to stop them finding
out anything at all...
Rat Scabies And The Holy Grail is an hilarious detective story, a surreal
road trip, a rich historical yarn and a testament to the bizarre nature
of many friendships.
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