the taking    dean koontz   کتاب The Taking is a 2004 novel written by Dean Koontz In the midst of an oddly sudden rain storm author Molly Sloan awakens in the middle of the night Unable to return to sleep she leaves her husband Neil slumbering in bed and goes downstairs to work on a manuscript in progress Dark shapes huddle on her porch  coyotes from the nearby forest She wonders what could have frightened such animals into leaving the sanctuary of the deep woods to brave the proximity of human beings Disturbed she steps outside to stand among the wild beasts and is frightened herself  not by the animals but by the strange oddly luminescent rain On an instinctual level she realizes that there is something unclean about the rain