

This is the 1st time I am tempted to write to Mr. THE TAKING A Bantam Book Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Penguin Random House LLC New York, New York This is a work of fiction. Lying in bed beside her husband, Molly Sloan had been restless before the sudden cloudburst. The abruptness and the ferocity of the downpour had the urgent quality of a perilous storm in a dream. Yet, in the end it was God fed up with the human race, so akin to Noah's Ark, he sends a hovercraft to collect faces? The next day, the world is sunny and bright again, just minus a few million people. THE TAKING Excerpt CHAPTER ONE A few minutes past one o’clock in the morning, a hard rain fell without warning. Right down to their fungis growing all over the place. The whole story was based on ET's taking over the earth. Plot spoiler.back out of thread now if you have not read the book, and plan to. It was like he was taking the story in one direction, and then towards the end, changed his mind, and made the ending completely unrelated to the events that happened along the way. But I have to say, after finishing The Taking, I have to shake my head.

In addition to a mysterious glowing acid raid, the power is off, but somehow. Novelist Molly Sloan and her husband are at their home in the San Bernardino Mountains in California, when everything starts to come apart. What a STRANGE novel! Dean Koontz is one of my favorite authors. In The Taking Koontz offers up a 'gripping, bloodcurdling, thought-provoking parable,' according to Ray Olsen in Booklist.
