Say Nothing
Douban
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
Sinossi
One evening in December 1972, Jean McConville, a widowed 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 to come.
contents
PROLOGUE The Treasure Room
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 Entanglements 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
Acknowledgements
A Note on Sources
Notes
Select Bibliography
Illustrations Credits
Index
