True Crime
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
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One 'disappearance' becomes a lens on the whole conflict: paramilitary loyalty, the code of silence, and how former militants reckon (or don't) with what they did.
A history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland told through the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, by the IRA — and the people involved.
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