Eleventh Hour

When police find 27 deformed fetuses buried in a mass grave, government scientist Ian Hood suspects they may be failed experiments at human cloning—the work of the mysterious “Gepetto.” With the life of a surrogate mother at stake, Hood and his bodyguard, Rachel, race to find Gepetto.

When a worker exhuming bodies from a church dies a gruesome death from a pox-like disease, Hood joins an emergency medical team to trace and chase an infectious hybrid virus. Authorities scramble to contain the virus and avoid a pandemic.

Hood’s former classmate, the renowned climatologist Richard Adams, may have suffered a breakdown. Fired from his job at an environmental think tank, Adams claims that insidious powers are sabotaging his imminent breakthrough on global warming.

After a child’s kidney tumor disappears, his father credits the cure to water from a particular spring. Hood and Rachel rush to the scene to investigate—along with a horde of hopeful cancer patients. But if the water has such curative power, why does it seem to make people sicker?