The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International No.1 bestseller Ken Follett returns
to Kingsbridge with an epic tale of revolution and a cast of unforgettable characters.
Revolution is in the air 1792. A tyrannical government is determined to make England a mighty
commercial empire. In France Napoleon Bonaparte begins his rise to power and with dissent
rife France's neighbours are on high alert. Kingsbridge is on the edge Unprecedented
industrial change sweeps the land making the lives of the workers in Kingbridge's prosperous
cloth mills a misery. Rampant modernization and dangerous new machinery are rendering jobs
obsolete and tearing families apart. Tyranny is on the horizon Now as international conflict
nears a story of a small group of Kingsbridge people - including spinner Sal Clitheroe weaver
David Shoveller and Kit Sal's inventive and headstrong son - will come to define the struggle
of a generation as they seek enlightenment and fight for a future free from oppression . . .
Taking the reader straight into the heart of history with the fifth novel in the
ground-breaking Kingsbridge series The Armour of Light is master storyteller Ken Follett's
most ambitious novel to date. More than 175 million copies sold worldwide. Published in over
eighty territories and thirty-seven languages. The international no.1 bestselling phenomenon
returns.
