Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · first published 2018 · ISBN 9780385543378
Keefe investigates the 1972 disappearance of Jean McConville during the Northern Ireland conflict. A mother of ten vanished, and for decades, no one would say what happened. Through interviews with IRA members, family members, and former intelligence operatives, Keefe reconstructs not just one murder but the moral collapse that made such a killing possible.
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This is the best true crime writing of the modern era. Keefe brings Capote's rigor to a political killing, handling the complexity without simplifying the violence. It's journalism that asks hard questions about how good people participate in atrocities.