For the citizens of a small California mountain town, the end of the world they have known arrives with
a strange silvery rainstorm. As news of extreme weather conditions across the globe reaches the town, an
ominous fog turns once familiar streets into a ghostly labyrinth. By evening, the town has lost all modes
of communication, and a gathering of frightened neighbors senses a threat they cannot identify or imagine.
In the night, strange noises arise and mysterious lights are seen drifting among the trees. The rain diminishes
with the dawn but a moody gray-purple twilight prevails. 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.
Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in its perspective, Dean Koontz's THE TAKING is an adventure
story like no other, a relentless roller-coaster ride that brings apocalypse to Main Street and showcases the talents
of the modern master of suspense at the pinnacle of his powers.
