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.
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.
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.

Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales. His first thriller, the wartime spy drama Eye of the Needle, became an international bestseller and has sold over 10 million copies. He then astonished everyone with his first historical novel, The Pillars of the Earth, the story of the building of a medieval cathedral, which went on to become one of the most beloved books of the twentieth century. One of the most popular authors in the world, his many books including the Kingsbridge series and the Century trilogy - a body of work which together chronicles over a thousand years of history - and his latest novel Never - which envisages how World War III could happen - have sold more than 188 million copies.