In 1967 Panorama Beach, is awash with dirty money: Developer money, drug money, vice money, and green-deputy Tommy "Mustang" Sawtell might just be the last untouched lawman in north Florida. But Mustang is about to be tested as he investigates his first suspicious death, a "floater" found in a pond under the Sky Bucket ride, from which the deputy believes he fell, jumped – or was thrown. But the deputy doesn't know why Sheriff "Big" Bass has personally assigned him to the case, there are signs of a cover-up, and Mustang is about to get a good look at his department's dark underbelly. Before it's over, he's going to learn that justice, the law, and doing what's right are all different things, and he may not like – or survive — the dangerous little place where they overlap.