The Armour Of Light Av Ken Follett

<p><b>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.</b><br><br><b>Revolution is in the air</b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>Kingsbridge is on the edge</b><br><br>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.<br><br><b>Tyranny is on the horizon</b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br><b>Taking the reader straight into the heart of history with the fifth novel in the ground-breaking Kingsbridge series, <i>The Armour of Light</i> is master storyteller Ken Follett’s most ambitious novel to date.</b><br><br>''Follett''s storytelling skills make their adventures riveting'' - <i>The Times</i><br><br>''An effortlessly engaging and entertaining read'' - <i>Daily Mail</i><br><br>''Bold in scale and meticulously researched'' - <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>''The plague scenes are expertly handled. Where Follett excels is in telling a yarn'' - <i>Independent</i><br><br><b>More than 175 million copies sold worldwide. Published in over eighty territories and thirty-seven languages. The international no.1 bestselling phenomenon returns.</b></p>