Christmas 1949 and all Frank Keegan, former-US Navy Gunner's Mate and former San Diego Police detective wants, is to get into his refurbished boat into the water and sail over the horizon. Or the edge of the earth. Six months earlier, the boat was high and dry, and Frank was perpetually wet at the bottom of a bottle of dark rum. Enter Julie Flynn, former taxi-dancer turned bartender, who pulls him out of the bottle and into her arms. However, as one of Frank's few friends observed, an ex-cop and a call girl with ties to the Chinese mob isn't exactly a match made in heaven. Especially when...

It's 1949, the war is long over, the next one is heating up, and U.S. Navy Gunner's Mate and former San Diego Police detective Frank Keegan has just returned to Hawaii after serving a four-year tour with the Military Police in Occupied Japan looking forward to mustering out of the military. On his first weekend back in the islands, he plans to get drunk, chase rich skirts, and hopefully stay out of the brig. Within hours of coming ashore, however, the Honolulu Police pick him up for the murder of Navy Lieutenant Elizabeth "Betsy" Vale. Although he is cleared quickly, his former commanding...