Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019

A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019

TIME’s #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‘A must read’ Gillian Flynn

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 the brutal crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.

Through the unsolved case of Jean McConville’s abduction, Patrick Radden Keefe tells the larger story of the Troubles, investigating Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA, who bombed the Old Bailey; Gerry Adams, the politician who helped end the fighting but denied his IRA past; and Brendan Hughes, an IRA commander who broke their code of silence. A gripping story forensically reported, Say Nothing explores the extremes people will go to for an ideal, and the way societies mend – or don’t – after long and bloody conflict.

‘10 Best Books of 2019’ – The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Slate, NPR’s Fresh Air
‘Best History Book of 2019’ – Amazon
‘10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019’ – TIME
‘10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade’ – Entertainment Weekly
‘20 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade’ – Literary Hub
‘10 Best True Crime Books of the Decade’ – CrimeReads