Rain of death

Death rain (original title: The Taking ) is a novel by Dean Koontz and was translated into German by Bernhard Kleinschmidt. It was published in the USA in 2004 and in Germany in 2007.

Koontz stages a doomsday scenario in seven parts that causes fear and panic in a small-town province of California and ushers in the downfall of mankind on a biblical scale. The respective chapters are introduced with quotations from TS Eliot .

action

A catastrophe announces itself worldwide with a bad weather front: floods, hurricanes and torrential rains that set in globally and trigger a worldwide emergency. When another mysterious audio recording is received from the International Space Station, no one can say with certainty whether it should not be understood as a declaration of war on humanity. The forces of nature are going crazy. People seem to disappear from the earth at random. Some can be heard screaming out loud in hysteria and pain. Animals move on in packs and seek protection. The couple Molly and Neil Sloan also try to save themselves from the uncertainty that haunts the inhabitants of their small town in the mountains of California. When they surrender to the hopeless situation and more and more people disappear with no way out, they only try to save what can still be saved.

literature

• Dean Koontz, Todesregen , German by Bernhard Kleinschmidt, Heyne Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3453016750