Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland

Keefe, Patrick Radden 1976- (author.).

Summary: December 1972. Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders. Her children never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as the Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the IRA was responsible, but no one would speak of it. In 2003, human bones was discovered on a beach-- McConville. Keefe uses the case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war that created a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish-- and whose consequences have never been reckoned with. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9780307279286
Physical Description: xii, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2019]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Subtitle taken from book jacket
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-427) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: The treasure room -- I. The clear, clean, sheer thing : -- An abduction -- Albert's daughters -- Evacuation -- An underground army -- St. Jude's walk -- The dirty dozen -- The little brigadier -- The cracked cup -- Orphans -- The Freds -- II. Human sacrifice : -- Close England! -- The Belfast Ten -- The toy salesman -- The ultimate weapon -- Captives -- A clockwork doll -- Field day -- The bloody envelope -- Blue ribbons -- III. A reckoning : -- A secret archive -- On the ledge -- Touts -- Bog queen --An Entanglement of lies -- The last gun -- The mystery radio -- The Boston tapes -- Death by misadventure -- This is the past -- The unknown