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The Taking
by Koontz, Dean
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 055380250X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553802504
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Bantam. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2004. First Edition (?). Hardcover. 055380250X . Assumed first edition, not stated. Very good hardcover with tight binding and clean pages. Very good dust jacket with minor wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages .
Synopsis
The new thriller from Dean Koontz is a novel of stunning suspense and visceral terror as doomsday dawns.On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain. It has haunted their dreams through the night, and now they find an eerily luminous and silver downpour that drenches their small Californian mountain town.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 young couple gathers together with some neighbours, sensing a threat they cannot identify or even imagine.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. Within the misty gloom the small band will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to the world – something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency.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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Courtney McElvogue Crafts & Vintage Finds
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 779
- Title
- The Taking
- Author
- Koontz, Dean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition (?)
- ISBN 10
- 055380250X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553802504
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 055380250X, Horror, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Horror;
Terms of Sale
Courtney McElvogue Crafts & Vintage Finds
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About the Seller
Courtney McElvogue Crafts & Vintage Finds
Biblio member since 2018
Bishop, California
About Courtney McElvogue Crafts & Vintage Finds
I worked at a used bookstore for 3-1/2 years until it unfortunately closed. I plan on one day opening a new store or purchasing another bookstore that I currently work at. I am selling books out of my house to save enough money to chase my dream of owning a a bookstore.
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