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Say nothing, a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe

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Say nothing

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Patrick Radden Keefe

a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland

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 this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades. In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. Say Nothing deftly weaves the stories of Jean McConville and her family with those of Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA as a front-line soldier, who bombed the Old Bailey when barely out of her teens; Gerry Adams, who helped bring an end to the fighting, but denied his own IRA past; Brendan Hughes, a fearsome IRA commander who turned on Adams after the peace process and broke the IRA's code of silence; and other indelible figures. By capturing the intrigue, the drama and the profound human cost of the Troubles, the book presents a searing chronicle of the lengths that people are willing to go to in pursuit of a political ideal, and the ways in which societies mend – or don't – in the aftermath of a long and bloody conflict. --, Provided by publisher

Book One The Clear, Clean, Sheer Thing -- 1. An Abduction -- 2. Albert's Daughters -- 3. Evacuation -- 4. An Underground Army -- 5. St Jude's Walk -- 6. The Dirty Dozen -- 7. The Little Brigadier -- 8. The Cracked Cup -- 9. Orphans -- 10. The Freds -- Book Two Human Sacrifice -- 11. Close England! -- 12. The Belfast Ten -- 13. The Toy Salesman -- 14. The Ultimate Weapon -- 15. Captives -- 16. A Clockwork Doll -- 17. Field Day -- 18. The Bloody Envelope -- 19. Blue Ribbons -- Book Three A Reckoning -- 20. A Secret Archive -- 21. On the Ledge -- 22. Touts -- 23. Bog Queen -- 24. An Entanglement of Lies -- 25. The Last Gun -- 26. The Mystery Radio -- 27. The Boston Tapes -- 28.Death by Misadventure -- 29. This Is the Past -- 30. The Unknown