Braving the horrors outside, they must rely on each other and hidden reserves of strength and humanity they didn't know they had to survive and help those who need it the most children. Molly and Neil leave as disagreement and paranoia and something far worse takes hold of everyone. Some stay behind, others plan to fortify and find refuge at the bank, and others want to fight back at what is threatening their world.ĭisturbing things happen to undermine the fragile morale of the townsfolk. Molly and Neil leave their isolated home and gather with other townsfolk at the tavern in hopes of finding answers and safety.Ī purple fog enshrouds Black Lake. News broadcasts tell of strange weather phenomena across the globe, and connections to the outside world begin to be severed as the menacing visitors close in. Neil wakes screaming from a nightmare, or more of a terrifying awareness of something passing overhead-some massive force like “a mountain coming down.” She finds the rain is faintly luminous, and has a subtle, repulsive scent.

Her husband Neil slumbers soundly, while she can't sleep. Set in the California mountain town of Black Lake, it begins with Molly Sloan getting out of bed to investigate a strange, sudden rain storm. Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in its perspective, The Taking is a story of a strangely changed and changing world as apocalypse comes to Main Street.The Taking is a 2004 Horror/suspense novel by Dean Koontz, detailing an invasion by hostile alien forces who bend all that is right with the world in their quick, ruthless takeover, and one couple caught in the middle of it all. Within the misty gloom the small band will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to the world - something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency. The rain diminishes with the dawn but a moody grey-purple twilight prevails. The night brings strange noises, and mysterious lights drift among the trees. The young couple gathers together with some neighbours, sensing a threat they cannot identify or even imagine. First TV and radio go dead, then the Internet and phone lines. By evening, the town has lost all communication with the outside world. An obscuring fog turns once familiar streets into a ghostly labyrinth. As hours pass they hear news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe.

It has haunted their dreams through the night, and now they find an eerily luminous and golden downpour that drenches their small Californian mountain town. On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain. The new thriller from Dean Koontz is a novel of surpassing suspense and visceral terror as doomsday dawns.

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