Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother’s killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.

It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a…