Can a young farmer from North Dakota get into serious trouble by visiting a friend living in an equally peaceful farm community in Canada?

Answer: It depends on who that friend has for a next-door neighbor. If the neighbor happens to be DR. PAUL MORGAN, stem-cell researcher with a secret business involving kidnapping and murder, the chances of the visiting farmer getting into trouble are 110 percent. And the chances are even higher if the farmer happens to be GENE MARTIN, who thinks of himself as a hero type and who jumps head first into any situation where it seems that a victim needs to be rescued.

The shocking situation that he finds in Canada involves not just one victim, but many, a monstrous interference with nature, and is bizarre and dangerous enough to make even a self-proclaimed action hero wonder if maybe he should just go back to riding a tractor on his farm in North Dakota.