2014 ABNA...Final Version?

After receiving some much-appreciated feedback from a few friends (thanks Kim, Melanie, Frank & Angela!), I've changed the pitch again.  Here's version #3.  I think this might be the final version...?

THE MENGELE EFFECT

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Category

On the last night of mankind's reign, the Reaper rides the wind, and falls from the clouds.

A single raindrop becomes a catalyst, opening a Pandora's box of genetic horrors long-forgotten amidst the rusted steel of a Kansas City salvage yard.  The mutations propagate swiftly, and a new species catches a scent.  Dawn reveals a lifeless city, quiet and still.  The mutant beasts hide from the light, multiply, and await the shadows of day's end.

Biowarfare specialist Carolyn Ridenour fights a daily battle to keep America safe from the world's tiniest, most fearsome weapons.  Ordered to Kansas City to investigate the unfolding horror, she barely escapes the creatures' nocturnal onslaught, saved at the last instant by Colonel Garrett Hoffmann, a man who'd witnessed the slaughter of hundreds of his troops—and innocent civilians—by a fast-moving wave of things bombs and bullets couldn't stop.  Together they work to discover a manner to halt the spread, to uncover a weakness.  But time is short.

President Andrew Smith, former Navy Admiral and battle-scarred hero, helplessly watches as city after city is eaten alive, the military’s conventional might useless against a swarming foe that inexplicably—and exponentially—replenishes its numbers every twenty-four hours.  Frantic for answers, the President is pushed towards the unthinkable by members of his own government, trusted advisors who have long prayed for this day...secret followers of an ancient order sworn to destroy civilization in order to save their own souls. 
       Carolyn and Garrett race to find a way to stop the creatures—the spawn of perverse, decades-old genetic research performed in Auschwitz’s filthy labs, refined by Cold War enemies and perfected by nature—before a desperate President unleashes the fury of America's nuclear arsenal on his own soil...and his own citizens.