Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe • 2019
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IRA Northern Ireland murder history
Our Take
Keefe investigates the murder of Jean McConville — a widow, mother of ten, dragged from her Belfast home by the IRA in 1972 — and reconstructs the entire arc of the Troubles through the people responsible for her death. The interview recordings that exposed the killers are the book's most morally complex element.
Appears In
► True Crime — Systems, Failures, and the People They Consumed ► Cold War — The Long Catastrophe of Competing Certainties ► Bearing Witness — Journalism at the Edge of Everything ► Homicide and Its Aftermath — Who Bears the Cost of Killing ► Irish Tragedy — The Island That Broke People and Kept Breaking
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