The Taking

Death Rain ( Original title: The Taking ) is a novel by Dean Koontz, and was translated into German by Bernhard Kleinschmidt. It was released in the U.S. and 2007 in Germany 2004.

Koontz staged in seven parts of a doomsday scenario that people fear and panic prepared in a small-town province of California and initiates the downfall of humanity in biblical proportions. The relevant chapters are introduced with quotes from TS Eliot.

Action

A catastrophe is brewing over the world with a weather front to floods, hurricanes and torrential rains that use the same global and trigger the global crisis. As a still mysterious audio recording from the International Space Station is received, no one can say with certainty whether these should not be construed as a declaration of war on mankind. The forces of nature acting crazy. People seem to randomly disappear from the earth. Some one hears in hysteria and pain cry aloud. Animals move on in packs and seek shelter. Even the couple Molly and Neil Sloan tries to save her from the unknown that haunts the inhabitants of their small town in the mountains of California. As they solve situation arise and disappear more and more fellow with no way to return, they try only to save what is possible to save even more.