Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the ira was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoria, no one would speak of it.

Patrick Radden Keefe’ s mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. from radical and impetuous IRA terrorists such as Dolours Price, who was planting bombs and targeting informers when she was barely out of her teens, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his IRA past - Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.