About This Book
“the roof had sometimes served as a reliable remedy for insomnia. This night, however, the liquid rhythms failed to lull her into slumber, and not just because they were out of season.”
On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain. As hours pass they hear news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. An obscuring fog turns once familiar streets into a ghostly labyrinth.
By evening, the town has lost all communication with the outside world. First TV and radio go dead, then the Internet and phone lines. The night brings strange noises, and mysterious lights drift among the trees.
The rain diminishes with the dawn but a moody grey-purple twilight prevails. 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.
