Say Nothing — Patrick Radden Keefe

Keefe's account of the murder of Jean McConville — a Belfast mother of ten taken from her home by the IRA in 1972, her body not found for thirty years — is a history of the Troubles told through one family's experience and one unsolved crime. The book moves between the murder, the investigation, the perpetrators, and the broader political history with extraordinary fluency. It is particularly acute on how political violence is absorbed, justified, and eventually remembered by those who carried it out — and on the silence that surrounds it in the communities that experienced it.

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. A New York Times bestseller. 'A masterpiece of narrative non-fiction. Keefe writes with the precision of a novelist and the conscience of a historian.' — The Guardian. 'Say Nothing is one of the great books about political violence.' — Sunday Times