The Taking

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Dean Koontz. The Taking

THE TAKING

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About the Author

ALSO BY DEAN KOONTZ

Copyright

About the Publisher

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This book is dedicated to Joe Stefko: great drummer, publisher of exquisite special editions, dog-lover … three virtues that guarantee Heaven. The bad feet can be overlooked.

—T.S. Eliot, Fragment of an Agon

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Nature has many lessons to teach a writer of fiction. One of these is that nothing captures the imagination as quickly or as completely as does spectacle.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us. An alternately nurturing and destructive parent is the stuff of gripping drama.

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