# The Armour of Light

**The grand master of gripping fiction is back. International no. 1 bestseller Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge in the 18th century, 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 Kingsbridge'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.**  
  
'Follett's storytelling skills make their adventures riveting' - _The Times_  
  
'An effortlessly engaging and entertaining read' - _Daily Mail_  
  
'Bold in scale and meticulously researched' - _The Sunday Times_  
  
'The plague scenes are expertly handled. Where Follett excels is in telling a yarn' - _The_ _Independent_  
  
**More than 175 million copies sold worldwide. Published in over eighty territories and thirty-seven languages. The international no. 1 bestselling phenomenon returns.**

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- **Vendor:** Pan Macmillan
- **Type:** Ken Follett

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