Viking announced that Ken Follett’s next novel, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, will be published worldwide on September 26. The novel will be the last in his eight-volume series that “chronicles the last thousand years of Western civilization.” Set in the 18th century, the book “tells of a group of linked families whose lives are turned upside-down by the new age of machinery.” Follett comments, “I’m fascinated by how people have struggled for freedom—and won. Most of my stories are about just that. The issue underlying The Armor of Light is freedom of speech.”