"Called The Mediterranean Flower for its beauty, Split has a complex history that is perhaps best explored within a mystery. In 1989,beautiful Silva doesn't come home. Young cop Gorki Sain discovers that she isn't what she seemed--she dabbled in drugs and dealt in heroin. But Gorki soon finds himself out of a job as Yugoslavia plungesinto a fratricidal war. Silva's brother stubbornly continues the search amid the upheavals of Croatian society, from the fall of communism through the 1991-1995 war. The former cop returns to solve the 30-year-old mystery in a different role, one less than ethically tiedto toxic land speculation and corruption that comes with the tourist boom on the Dalmatian Coast."--