PublishedHarper Collins, September 2019 |
ISBN9780008159269 |
FormatSoftcover, 528 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 4cm |
Winner of the Orwel Prize for Political Writing 2019
One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of the brutal crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.
Through the unsolved case of Jean McConville's abduction, Patrick Radden Keefe tells the larger story of the Troubles, investigating Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA, who bombed the Old Bailey; Gerry Adams, the politician who helped end the fighting but denied his IRA past; and Brendan Hughes, an IRA commander who broke their code of silence. A gripping story forensically reported, Say Nothing explores the extremes people will go to for an ideal, and the way societies mend - or don't - after long and bloody conflict.
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Set out like a detective story, this is a history of the time of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland. Using the abduction of mother of ten, Jean McConville as his starting point, Keefe explores the repercussions of the crime amidst the larger conflict, seen through the eyes of major and minor players.
