April, 1951. Lee County, Florida. It's Friday night at the Caloosa Club, an ultra-private, members-only hideaway tucked inside the riverfront Caloosa Hotel in downtown Fort Myers. The crowd, well-heeled, freewheeling locals, vacationing war veterans and their wives, are enjoying the club's forbidden pleasures: high-stakes poker, untaxed mixed drinks and play-for-pay escorts of both sexes. Hotel manager and war hero Dan Ewing is pleased yet troubled...